One of the difficulties of being a writer is dealing with readers…who find mistakes, typos, errors, or logical gaffs in one’s writing. The average writer knows in her heart that she’s not perfect (just probably better than all her siblings), but facing the music that you have errors …
I write mysteries. Sometimes they are more cozy than hard-boiled, but as is true with all mysteries, they tend to focus on the darker elements of the human personality. They focus on people who lie to each other, who steal from each other, and who harm each other. …
My son is into artificial intelligence, which is a good thing because as a parent, I sometimes fear he lacks commonsense intelligence. Just a joke! Actually I am quite proud of my son. But like most younger people, he fears I have not yet embraced all the potential …
his may be a bad idea, but I’m going to take the magic out of writing mysteries. I think there are simply not enough books in the world, and with more and more books being banned, we need more writers out there. So this is an attempt to …
Being a writer is one of the greatest jobs in the world. You get to be your own boss (most of the time), you get to set your own schedule, you get to pick your own workspace, you get to define your own work procedures, and you get to determine your own pay (sort …
One of the fun things writers get to do is creating characters. While we have to accept the people around us in the real world, in our fictional worlds, we can create any character we want. We can make them as good as we want, or as evil as we can imagine. In most …
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