Wednesday, August 10, 2011
Mr. Stephen King and Mr. Peter Straub, that is. These two gentlemen co-wrote a couple books, if you didn’t know. And I’m currently enjoying the second of that couple most muchly, yup. The first, The Talisman, I read years and years ago. So, before I started this new read, I hied myself to my local [...]
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Also tagged Active and Passive Voice, Adverbs, Amazon, Black House, Descriptive Language, Detective mystery, Fantasy, Homer, Jack Sawyer, Joshua Unruh, Mythology, Narrative and Exposition, Peter Straub, Sci-fi, Stephen King, The Talisman, Thriller, WILAWriTWe
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I’ve spent the last few days getting scared out of my wits by a wholly unexpected source: Agatha Christie’s And Then There Were None.
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Also tagged Adverbs, Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, Character Development, Fear, Inspirations, Murder Mystery, Muse, Narrative and Exposition, Plot, Raymond E. Feist, Realism, Suspense, Ten Little Indians, The Human Condition
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I love my job. Have I mentioned that? Well, let me mention it here and now: I love my job. I get to write, I get to read what my Writers Tribe writes, and I get to read all sorts of books in all sorts of genres. It’s exactly the job for me, and I [...]
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Also tagged Character, Cubby Greenwich, Dean Koontz, Grimbald and Clotilda, Milo, Plot, Relentless, Shearman Waxx, Storytelling, Vivian Norby, Writer's Tribe
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Wednesday, February 2, 2011
Greetings, my dear inklings! I come to you today bearing tidings of the sci-fi nature. “Sci-fi nature” — is that an oxymoron? No matter! (Anti, dark, or otherwise.) What’s on my mind today is that I’m reading a terrific book right now, and I’m going to attempt to tell you about it without giving away [...]
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Also tagged Cerberus: A Wolf in the Fold, Charon: A Dragon at the Gate, Jack L. Chalker, Lilith: A Snake in the Grass, Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail, Paranormal, Sci-fi, The Four Lords of the Diamond, WILAWriTWe, Work-in-progress, Young Adult
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Thursday, January 7, 2010
It was a dark and stormy night, when a couple of guys who were up to no good started making trouble in my neighborhood. True story. Nearly everything I said about introductions in Tuesday’s post, Negotiating a Connection, applies to Creative Writers just as much as it does to the Business Writers. The big exception [...]
