Today we are joined by my friend Casey Costra, who recently released his new novel Touch. Casey left home very early, worked a lot of jobs to pay for a lot of education, met “the one” early on, had kids who were adults by the time women these days are getting around to their first […]
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Bad Sex Awards
“Each year since 1993, the Bad Sex in Fiction Award has honoured an author who has produced an outstandingly bad scene of sexual description in an otherwise good novel.” –Literary Review Well, that’s all you need to know, right? These are OUTSTANDINGLY bad sex scenes. I found this article on The Guardian – sorry, I […]
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Trite? or True?
from A Moveable Feast Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going… “Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” So finally I […]
1. Most of the input we get about writing a story comes from people who are traditionally published, and traditionally published people are going to agents. Agents are effing lazy. So if you don’t hook the agent or publisher on page 1 paragraph 1, they don’t read much farther. 2. That’s… a lot of pressure […]
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Finishing up with Harry
I did my 5-part series about JK Rowling’s Harry Potter, but as of that point I hadn’t actually finished the book. Now I have. So here’s the rest of my analysis. Well, the chapters 11 through 13 were kind of slow. Take your pick; 12 through 14 or 10 through 13, but they’re a little […]
your humble host First, Happy Thanksgiving! If you need some light reading, this week-long series about Harry Potter is just the thing. If not, you arrived just in time for the best part. (Check out part 1, part 2, part 3 and part 4) So last night, I was reading Harry Potter on the couch […]
I had to make a long trip on an airplane recently, so I used it as an excuse to finally dig into Harry Potter and see what all the fuss was about. Is it great storytelling? (Part 1, part 2, part 3) Let’s look back on what we’ve learned so far. I got into this […]
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