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 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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A Must See Film Found on a Must Read Blog

My friend and fellow HFC writer, Gary Denton, has an enjoyable blog that chronicles his journey of writing a modern-day sea-faring adventure novel. His most recent post contains a must-see film clip for anyone that realizes the importance of chosing the correct words. Visit his blog, Journey to Good Hope to watch the film. And [...]

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Why Olney?

When I wrote the discovery draft of this novel last November, I created a rural Illinois setting and was careful to select names that were nonexistent, or at least to my knowledge and a Google search. But in my mind as I wrote the story, I pictured real places. Like the church I visited as [...]

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New Picture for the Blog Header

I’m so excited about the picture I found for the header on this novel blog and thought I should share some background. Hope and Faith is set in Olney, IL, and I wanted its rural scenery reflected in the blog header. I went to work looking for an appropriate picture (thanks to social networking sites, [...]

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A New Blog Dedicated to my Novel

Greetings to anyone who stumbles across this posting as this is an inaugural post for me on WordPress. I’m creating this blog to devote to my new (and first) novel. I’m using WordPress as I’ve been curious how it compares to Blogger, which is the platform I’ve used for other blogs. So far I like [...]

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