Who is real historically in that “letter?” And who is not? It should not and does not matter.
What matters is they should all read as REAL.
Write Your Book
Social Media “Rules” (For Me)
My mood was such I felt I would have bitten the head off of anyone who looked at me even slightly sideways. Unfortunately, one person did, on Instagram…
How “Stars” Are Born
Unless he/she is a direct lift from some actual person, even as the author I find it may be hard to recall precisely how I thought of him/her. It is amusing to take some time, sit back, and ask yourself: “How did I invent you?”
The Missed
Pondering time may be unnerving and even scary. Naturally, though, it goes by – as a famous song declares. It is inescapable.
But in all of that is also at least GREAT potential material for a writer. LOL!
So Many Novel Thoughts
I had not planned it this way. This turned into a long and in-depth post, and if you don’t want to stick around I fully understand. If you choose to do so, as you scroll down I hope you find parts interesting and maybe even offering some “advice” to you if you write too.
An Accidental Treasure
One of the best creative decisions I believe I ever made in terms of family memory was fitting so much of my parents, my (novelist) uncle, and a grandmother, into my first three books.
The Sun Also Rises… On A Monday
You are running a real personal risk writing under your real name. If you are not a “timid” author, chances are you will write – even inadvertently – something that will offend someone.
#WritingCommunity 3
I am taking this opportunity to read the Tomorrow manuscript out loud. It is one of the last things I do…
Me, Myself, And The Catskills
My father and my sister came up to the Catskills with me on Sunday. They returned home to Pennsylvania this morning. So for some weeks to come… I am home alone in the Catskills.
About Tomorrow Today
Q: Recently, controversially on your blog, you attacked sci-fi and fantasy writers. Are you trying to be hounded off of social media and chased into hiding in, uh, Norway?
N: There’s nothing wrong with Norway. But I didn’t attack them…
Corrections, Corrections, Corrections
His last book had been published in 2004. I remember my mother around 2010 once having a go about my uncle’s internet behavior. After getting off of the phone with him, in her kitchen Mom threw up her hands in disgust to me and declared something like, “Hemingway keeps moaning he can’t write another novel. He sure as hell could if he’d just stay the hell off of Facebook.”
“How should an author respond? Don’t”
Having seen it unfold over the last two days, based on what I’ve learned over the years I wanted just to offer Ms. Avon some minor support. I did so in three quick tweets…
The “Editors”
Much as her self-appointed arbiter of “good writing” popped up to troll tweet Ms. Avon, I feel the same could apply to that passage above: “Rewrite needed.” Why? Ahem, well…
From Today’s Authoring Roller Coaster
Oh, please. As I read that here once more, I can (as I did in March 2018) yet again feel an urge coming on to bash my head down on my desk repeatedly. For if her “time-travel”-based tale is “historical fiction”…
“To take her Ladyship’s praise…”
“I keep getting rejected, so my writing can’t be good enough.”
Uh, not necessarily; and, in fact, that is probably decidedly NOT so.
