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‘Twas a few days before Christmas and Five Top Authors Rock the House
Every idea is my last. I feel sure of it. But I don’t just wait for ideas. I look for them constantly. ~Peg Bracken I’m still learning what it is about the past I want to write. I don’t worry about it....
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Bad Covers = Bad Sales or Why it is very important to Hire a Professional...
While writing your novel, you are a creator. A wordsmith. An...
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BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT: What is Your Fodder for Writing?
Double Take, a mystery thriller set on the Big Island of Hawaii is loosely defined by a love triangle that devolves wickedly into a red-hot flow of despair, frustration and anger. CSI, Law & Order,...
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Always Walking Toward the Setting Sun
One of many fine original photos that will appear in Double Take One of my favorite bloggers wrote that Adventure = Risk plus Purpose, and suggests as many have, that if something scares the beejesus...
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THE MARRIAGE OF BELIEVABLE CHARACTERS AND ENGAGING SETTINGS
What makes a character come alive in a news report, work of fantasy, memoir or mystery-thriller? Readers say they enjoy their lovers and villains, mothers and neighbors to be complicated, passionate,...
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How to Jump Start your Writing
If we were to modify a popular expression, we could say, She who hesitates gets no writing done. Natalie Goldberg exhorts writers to “burn through their first thoughts, coming to a place where you are...
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Writing a Mystery Novel – Plot 101 or Where to FInd Ideas
Today, we will begin a series of short blogs on how an author can craft and sell a novel, beginning with where a writer can find plot and character ideas. Most simply, just do what you are already...
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Now I have got a Plot, What’s Next?
Natalie Goldberg says, “There is no separation between writing, life and the mind,” and I agree with her, at least on most days. So, let’s turn your wonderful and amazing plot ideas into a first...
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Building Suspense as a Mystery Writer or How to Carry Around a Bomb in your...
A cardinal rule for mystery novels is that the reader must know everything the sleuth knows and the reader and sleuth must realize who the culprit is at the same time. Cheat the readers and they will...
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How to Write a Bestseller and Feel Good While Doing It
Focus on what you want in your life, not on what you don’t want. Act as if it has already happened. Focus only on the end result. For example, “I have written and published the first in a series of...
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