Wednesday Wisdom for Writers and Those Who Love Them
“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.” […]
“One doesn’t stop seeing. One doesn’t stop framing. It doesn’t turn off and turn on. It’s on all the time.” […]
“What the detective story is about is not murder but the restoration of order.” —P.D. James It’s all better with […]
—30— “A writer is someone who finishes.” —Thomas Farber […]
“Characters take on life sometimes by luck, but I suspect it is when you can write more entirely out of […]
“Here I was into astronomy, and here into anthropology, and there I go into geology. It was much more fun […]
Left Coast Crime is a book conference built around fans of Crime Fiction. It’s probably my favorite event in the […]
“Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a […]
“Don’t loaf and invite inspiration; light out after it with a club, and if you don’t get it you will […]
“Making people believe the unbelievable is not trick; it’s work. …Belief and reader absorption come in the details: An overturned […]
“Fiction is about stuff that’s screwed up.” —Nancy Kress Someone commented recently that researching the dark things must be terrible. […]