Are You a Candle or a Mirror

Warning:  this is a no-edit zone… On awakening, like everyone else, I have my rituals. One of them is to read from the Bible and then to pull a quote for the day and reflect on how the two–the reading and the quote–interrelate. The quote for today...

Amazing Grace–On the Record

Warning:  this is a no-edit zone… During the course of a given day, I’m asked an average of thirty questions.  Most come from other writers, but others regularly come from agents, editors, reviewers, booksellers and others in the industry.  Then there are...

Creating Unforgettable Characters

Creating Unforgettable Characters Vicki Hinze © 2003-11 In 1757, in Poor Richard’s Almanac, the wise and astute Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Little strokes fell great oaks.” Important message tow writers in that saying, because it is through...

It’s All In A Day’s Work

WARNING:  This is a no-edit zone… Every writer goes through periods of it, and I’m neck-deep in one such period now.  That is, periods where the professional To-Do list is several pages long and for every item that finally gets ticked off, two more go...

Build a Character Cast

Inspiration for books strikes us in different ways: 1.  Theme/Statement 2.  Plot 3.  People Which comes first doesn’t matter much, provided the author ties the other two ways to it. Why?  Because these three things weave together with Setting and other story elements...
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