Craft: Rule of Three

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 I’m not sure who originally coined the phrase, Rule of Three, but odds are it was John Gardner in The Art of Fiction (I just ordered my fourth copy of that book; can’t read through all the highlighted parts anymore in the first...

Business: Royalties

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Q. At my writing group meeting, an author mentioned a sell-through on her book. It sounded important, but I’ve never heard the term. What is a sell-through? A. The short answer: sell-through is the percentage ratio of the number of units...

Business: Romance Novels–A National Resource

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 Let’s celebrate the magic of books! Books are magical. They must be. What else could explain our reading words on a page and those words firing our imaginations, transporting us into living an adventure being carried out in a novel’s pages?...

Business: Setting Goals

Vicki Hinze © 2000-2011 As the year draws to a close, we make resolutions and look forward with great promise. Too often we fail to carry through on those resolutions and promises we make to ourselves. That makes us stopping and taking stock of ourselves–all of...

Craft: Sentences

Vicki Hinze © 2003-2011 How come when I read books, I see long sentences and sentences that begin with “And” when I’m told not to do either? What’s the rule for sentences? The truth is, there are no rules for writing. There are suggestions and...
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