Our #1 Daughter was telling me her book club had a Skype chat with an author, and the author said she composed on a computer unless she got blocked. If she got blocked, she wrote with pen and paper. I said, “So do I!” She…
Tag: the writing process
Well, not the bird, necessarily, but, you know, the whatever. Say you’re writing a story about a murderer. You know you have to put yourself in the place of the murderer: Why is killing acceptable/inevitable/enjoyable? What does it feel like to think about it, to…
This is one of the many questions most fiction writers must ask in most projects. I’m told that the coziest of cozy mysteries eschew all profanity, but it sometimes happens that the villain is a roughneck. What then? Personally, as a reader, I can take…