LOST

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Writers are human, and being human they experience the same things emotionally that others experience.  It is their ability to relate these common or universal emotions in a way that readers see glimpses of themselves in what is...

CELEBRATION TIME

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Occasionally, we have the rare privilege of feeling as if we’re in the right place at the right time with the right people with the right thing to do what we’re supposed to be doing.  For me, this is one of those times. It’s...

HOW-TO CREATE CREDIBILITY

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Remember how I said that questions tend to come in clusters.  Well, the current cluster relates to credibility and events, all of which relate to character and human behavior. In novels, we create stories that center around...

PROLOGUES AND FLASHBACKS: LIABILITY OR ASSET?

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Is the Prologue or the Flashback an asset or a liability? Seems like a simple question, doesn’t it?  But this is a case when what seems to be isn’t–not that a response is ultra complex, it just requires judgment calls, and...

HOMETOWN TRAGEDY

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Yesterday, a man was murdered. He was a deputy sheriff–the first from our town to be shot and killed while on duty. A man, it appears, had been placed in a mental facility for involuntary evaluation.  He escaped.  How? ...
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