Six Common Types Endings

Has this happened to you? You’ve found the perfect book, a true page-turner that you can’t put down. Happily you read until you come to the end, and… well, it’s awful, to put it nicely! And it completely ruins the book. Recently my friend and fellow Humble Fiction Cafe (HFC) writers group member, Linda Lindsey, [...]

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A New Story Posted – The Middle Child

I’ve been remiss in updating this blog, and even worse, in working on the novel. I was distracted in that I was working to keep one of my New Year’s Resolutions – the resolution to post a minimum of one short story each quarter on my blog. Sadly, I am a slow, meticulous writer. Joyfully, [...]

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A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words for Novel Writing Too

I’ve mentioned before, I am a visual person. As I do my business development work (writers often have two jobs – one for income; the other, writing, is for pleasure), I spread my pitch points, brochures, introductory letters, and notes over my desk so that I can reference these documents during my conversations with prospects. [...]

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