Archive for September 2013
Fiction Friday: Another Time and Place, and Another Author
Welcome to Fiction Friday, my chance each week to share excerpts of my own novels or novels of other writers that I think you might like. Today is one of the latter. If you’ve followed my blog you know that author Diane Chamberlain is a good friend and one of my own favorite reads. Diane’s…
Read MoreW. Somerset Maugham vs. Elmore Leonard. Are There Rules for Writing?
Every writer I know loves to quote the following by W. Somerset Maugham, (1874-1965) author of The Razor’s Edge and Of Human Bondage: “There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately no one knows what they are.” More recently ten tricks for good writing by the late Elmore Leonard, renowned writer of westerns and…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: “A Grand Thing”
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie Agatha is so right. Each of our lives encompasses a wide range of experiences ranging from incomprehensible depression and grief…
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