13 Ways – How to Never Finish your Novel
This is a real list. I’ve done all these for Sidetrack Key, my second novel and the one I carried the greatest mythology about. Notions…
Prose
Best Course in Town: The Artist’s Way, taught by Rosalind Brackenbury
https://tskw.org/the-artists-way-with-rosalind-brackenbury/ When I moved to Key West, I had the great good fortune to take this class, and it changed my life. I had stopped…
Rolling, rolling, rolling
Reporting from the field. Just dodged a bullet by trying to improve, i.e. complicate, the plot of my novel by adding a stash of gold…
Novel mid-point. Tackling the sagging middle
My word count tells me I am right at the midpoint but my storyline says more like two thirds. So do I need more story?…
Place, in Fiction
Lately my favorite books feature place prominently. I love to feel familiar with an area as much as with the characters that inhabit it. I…
TSKW – Writes of Spring at 750 words a day, because I can’t be trusted
I have wanted to write this post for awhile but couldn’t tell the story about my work just in case any of the judges happened…
The Creative Process
I like to make things – lots of things. I like to write, paint, knit, sew, cook, grow plants. Lately, though, even the tomatoes have…
Writers groups, self publishing, and a gazillion Kindles in search of content
Finally the new year is here and I reflect on what has happened this past year. Probably the single greatest change is my dedication to…
Bouchercon 2011
This was my first year attending Bouchercon and I now understand why it is such an important conference. I have had the best time ever….
What’s a nice girl like me doing writing crime fiction?
This book is available in digital format at Amazon.com for 99 cents. Inspired by friends who have self-published successfully, I gathered what I considered to…