Keep readers firmly inside your character’s head.
The novel’s opening chapter reminded me of the car commercial that promotes its lane-departure warning system. If the car drifts across the center line, it sounds a loud alert.
This prospective author could have used something similar for his novel’s point of view. Unknowingly, he kept drifting from his main character’s awareness.
In a scene with Miriam … Continue reading
Take it a little at a time.
If you’re daunted by writing your book, consider this old joke:
How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.
Still, authorship means more than writing one word after another. You face multiple tasks. But broken into many small steps, any job can become feasible.
My father-in-law and I just completed a … Continue reading
They’re your key to 3-D writing.
by Andy Scheer
John Steinbeck applies the principle in the first paragraph of Travels With Charley, about his 1960 drive “in search of America,” with a pick-up camper and a standard poodle.
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this … Continue reading