Authentic Dialogue: Ten Tips For Beginning Writers

This post is a companion piece to Interior Monologue and focuses on authentic dialogue, particularly… read more

Interior Monologue: Tips and Techniques

In novels, like in movies, we get to know characters through their words and actions…. read more

Crazy Rich Asians – Read the Trilogy!

I just finished reading the Crazy Rich Asians trilogy by Kevin Kwan which consists of… read more

Fiction Writing as a Way of Life: An Event

Fiction Writing as a Way of Life was an event sponsored by the Blackburn Series… read more

Secondary Characters: Five Tips for Creating Them

Main characters are the prime movers of your story. Their goals and motivations fuel the… read more

Lucy Corin: Five Questions with a Multigenre Author

Lucy Corin is a short story writer and novelist, and she also teaches at the… read more