There is a lot of discussion on the stock market talk shows about how to invest in AI. Microsoft recently…
It is just as easy to tell a reader too much as it is to tell them not enough. Neither…
Psychology helps explain some of the characters in my books. In my writing, I don’t always harken back to childhood…
I learned the hard way to figure out the details of my important characters BEFORE starting writing. This is not…
Sometimes you don’t see a pothole in the road until you’ve smashed into it. The same is true of plot…
Creating realistic characters for me is like method acting. That may be a bit overstated. Method actors strive to inhabit…
Some 35,000 words into Empty Luck, perhaps half way, I encountered the dreaded Writer’s Block. I had managed to paint…
Here’s what I’ve learned: The funny thing about fiction is it’s only good if it reads like a true story.…
Occasionally, less description is better. Writers want to describe. And readers want to feel. But how do we get the…
I’ve been struggling with my latest project, a novel tentatively titled Empty Luck. I know what it is about and…