What you write can make a difference.
His email hurt deeply. Written in anger, his accusations pulled the rug out from under me. The rest of the day, I revisited the charges he’d leveled.
Unable to pursue other tasks, I turned to more affirming words.
I could have turned to truth-filled nonfiction, but I wasn’t in the mood.
Instead, I immersed myself in a well-crafted novel. Rather than a sermon, I wanted a story.
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What do endorsements for your genre say?
At the bottom of the novel’s back cover, four short words offered excellent advice for any author writing in that genre.
This weekend at a thrift store, I’d scored a British edition of Graham Brown’s international thriller The Mayan Conspiracy (subtitled “A deadly secret that could change the world”).
Bestselling thriller writer Steve Berry’s words on the back cover … Continue reading
Keep readers 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