Looking for authentic 1950s details?
by Andy Scheer
As someone who lived through the 1950s and ’60s, if I were writing a novel set in that era I could be tempted to trust my memory. But recent visits to a few websites reminded me how much I’d forgotten.
Like the motels … Continue reading
An instant novel needs more time.
by Andy Scheer
Sometimes participating in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) makes sense.
Three years ago, as a senior in Taylor University’s Professional Writing program, Chandler Birch accepted the challenge to write a novel in a month. “Prior to that,” he says, “I had next to … Continue reading
Why settle for sentences that are just okay?
by Andy Scheer
I could tell the writer had been rushed, didn’t know better, or just didn’t care.
I based that assessment on a single sentence. Here it is, in a Hemmings Motor News profile of the 1971 Ford Ranchero Squire … Continue reading