A Review of “The Six Hundred Dollar Man”
My story, “The Six Hundred Dollar Man,” received a favorable review by Lototy over at Coffee Time Romance. Check out her review here; she really understood the message of the story, and knows...
View Article10 Reasons You Really Are Good Enough to Write Fiction
Perhaps you have a story inside you, but you feel too scared or intimidated or inadequate to believe you could ever write fiction. Here are some ways to banish those feelings. First, there are at...
View ArticleYour Baby’s Ugly
How should you, as an author, deal with negative reviews? You’re going to get them, so you might as well prepare now. Nobody calls actual babies ugly, not to the Mom’s face anyway, but people will...
View ArticleEmotional Roller-coaster
As you and the story you’re writing go through time together, do you find yourself on the same type of emotional roller-coaster as with a personal relationship? Do you feel elated by positive events...
View ArticleTwain’s Attack on Cooper
In 1895, Mark Twain published “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses,” a lengthy criticism of James Fenimore Cooper’s writing, especially his novels The Pathfinder and The Deerslayer. Since it’s one of...
View ArticleWhat a Party!
Three days after the party and I’m still recovering. No, not really. It was a Facebook party to celebrate the launch of the anthology 20,000 Leagues Remembered. No music, no dancing, relatively few...
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