I’m reading (as who isn’t) The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. When I started reading it, I was like, “OMG, this is brill!” After a bunch of chapters, I was like, “I’m not reading any more of this.” But I’m still reading. It’s…
Tag: writer’s tools
Mom isn’t a writer, although she should be: she comes up with some great story ideas, and she knows all the good tricks. When I was little, Mom was divorced with sole custody of me, working two jobs, no alimony, only $20 a month in…
Know what I love? Book sales! Know which ones I love best? Non-fiction. Know why? Characters! Whether you’re writing science fiction, fantasy, historical, mystery, or non-genre, your characters have to have a setting. They have to have a back story. They have an ethnicity. Even…