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!
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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?