On March 30, 2010, a harried, hopeful aspiring novelist started this blog as a way to get her butt into gear and get busy finishing her novel, which was about a third of the way done. Since then, not only have I finished Baby Grand, and revised it twice, but I’m about to kick-start my [...]
Archive for March, 2011
Happy Birthday to ‘Making BABY GRAND’!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby grand novel, Facebook, Twitter on March 30, 2011 | 10 Comments »
Villains: Likable or Hateable?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hannibal Lecter, James Patterson, Thomas Harris, Twitter, Villain on March 28, 2011 | 4 Comments »
@smitheclaire asked an interesting question on Twitter yesterday: Is it better to have a likable or hateable villain in your story? The question made me think, of course, of Hannibal Lecter, Thomas Harris’ cannibalistic bad guy who somehow gets us to not only like him but root for him. That’s quite an achievement for a [...]
Writing Tip #24
Posted in Writing Tips, tagged Arts, Eloisa James, Fiction, Hofstra University, The New York Times Best Seller list, Word count, writing on March 27, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Don’t be afraid to cut. A lot. New York Times bestselling romance author Eloisa James recently lamented at a seminar I attended that, after some thought, she was going to have to get rid of the first 150 pages of the new novel she was writing. Just like that. 150 pages. Gone. Yep. It happens. [...]
Quote of the Day
Posted in Quotes, tagged Anaïs Nin on March 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.” – Anaïs Nin
Whose Responsbility Is It to Suspend Disbelief?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Pre-Cana, Suspension of disbelief, Writer on March 25, 2011 | 4 Comments »
A fascinating question was posed in one of my networking groups: Whose responsibility is it to suspend disbelief, the writer’s or the reader’s? I think the kneejerk response would be that it’s the writer’s. But my feeling is that it’s a shared burden, that the burden of “suspending disbelief” is on the writer to create [...]
Finally Started a Blogroll!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged baby grand novel, Blog, blogroll, writing on March 23, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Been meaning to do this for months! There are so many amazing blogs that I come across about writing, so I’ve finally started a blogroll. Keep in mind that this is a work in progress, and I will be adding blogs daily, weekly, as I wait… and wait… for news on Baby Grand. If you [...]
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