THE SUSPENSE NOVELIST – THE BLOG – Page 28

Self-editing. Are you shaking in your boots? One of my all-time favorite writing books is Write Away by Elizabeth George. […]

I’m guest blogging today at Meanderings and Muses, the most wonderful blog of Kaye Barley. If you have the opportunity, […]

I feel as if I’ve discovered The Secret.Many of my writer friends regularly write 2,000 words a day. Some as […]

by Lise McClendon, author I started out as a mystery writer, cutting my teeth on Marcia Muller and Sue Grafton. […]

Peg–habits, revisions, was–October 24, 2011

One of the first things a new writer learns is that the word “was” does not belong in her story […]

I attended a workshop a couple of years ago conducted by Donald Maass (author of Writing the Breakout Novel and […]

There are a lot of software programs out there for writers. I selected Scrivener because I’d heard nothing but raves […]

Okay, maybe writing out of sequence isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. At least all I cracked it up […]

I used to write chapter by chapter, scene by scene. A sequential recording of events. Chapter One was always followed […]

We have all seen a perfectionist at work. Someone who dots and crosses all the right letters and always leaves […]