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Preparing for Christmas has been a hard road this year. It all started in November.  I knew it would be busy.  That particular month always is in my line of work.  What I didn’t expect was the

It happened one summer day. The breakup with my agent. I met her at a conference.  One of my manuscripts had caught her eye.  We talked.  She asked for a proposal.  I delivered early.  The nex

Our hot water heater died last night (Friday) at 11 PM.  It happened like this.  I’d had a very long and busy week.  When I finally stumbled through the door at eight o’clock last night, my

This is the last post of my series on numbers in writing.  I want to talk about scene chords.  In his book, Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell discusses four scene chords.  He defines a c

It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging for nine weeks now.  When I re-launched my new website and began blogging on a regular basis, I said I’d be writing on two themes, on-the-edge suspens