We were fortunate enough to spend a little time recently with Michael Dellert and managed to get him to open up a bit about his process and inner thoughts on writing. Michael is an award-winning writer, editor, publishing consultant, as well as a writing coach. His publishing career spans 20 years. His blog is aContinue reading “Author Profile: Michael E. Dellert”
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Author On The Ledge!
Be sure to enter to win a signed copy of Savvy Stories HERE LAST DAY! Don’t miss out! You’ll know it when you see it. An author friend has started the downward spiral of doubt. Here’s an example from a blog post of an obviously dismayed author friend, followed by my reply:Continue reading “Author On The Ledge!”
Writing Good Dialogs
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Happy Endings – Or Not
Be sure to enter to win a signed copy of Savvy Stories HERE Today’s post: Is the ending of your story too predictable? Put your characters up a tree and throw rocks at them. That’s the basis for an interesting story, right? But at some point the rocks stop and the ending comes. Readers areContinue reading “Happy Endings – Or Not”
A Funny Thought
Do you go through your day and nobody ever says anything funny? A whole day? Not one snide remark or glib comment? Do you go through your whole story and nobody ever says anything funny? Why?
