How does your protagonist respond to gifts? If your book is a romance, you probably have a scene where the female protagonist receives a gift. How do you show her surprise, her shyness, her faking that she likes it, or her joy because it’s perfect? In a mystery or a thriller, does the criminal give […]
Author Sue Monk Kidd Quotes
Sue Monk Kidd’s The Invention of Wings has won the 2015 SIBA Book Award for Fiction. Nominated by Southern indie booksellers and readers and selected by a jury of Southern booksellers, SIBA Book Award winners “represent the best of Southern literature.” Sue Monk Kidd attended the Sarah and Angelina Grimke Day on May 5, 2015 […]
Weather in Fiction Can Create Sensory Disadvantage
One of my Facebook friends,Cynthia Helen Beecher read my post, “Using Fog in Writing” and told me about Oregon author, James Boyle, who had a reading in Healdsburg recently. Fog is one of the characters in his trilogy. I became a FB friend with him and in our chat, he said “Fog is a nice […]
Using Fog in Writing
I like fog, however, last night as a few hundred people claimed their spot at the Emeryville shoreline park at about 6:00, a thin layer of fog threatened to block the sunset and promised to become thicker. Our friends from Sacramento who own a boat docked at the Emeryville harbor invited us to join them […]
Happy 4th of July
Enjoy the 4th and be safe.
Quote from Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka ( 3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) Albert Camus, Gabriel García Márquez and Jean-Paul Sartre are among the writers influenced by Kafka’s work; the term Kafkaesque has entered the English language to describe existential situations like those in his writing. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franz_Kafka Anel P. Albertao posted this amazing Kafka quote on FaceBook. “I […]
The Romance Category in Written Across the Genres
In previous posts, I gave examples of Mainstream Fiction short stories published in my anthology, Written Across the Genres. The Romance Section features two short stories, three poems, and an excerpt from Sharon Burgess’ novel, Simply Irresistible, which she published on July 11, 2014. It is available on Amazon or it can be ordered at […]