I was pleased to notice a poster for a writing seminar at the public library and made a note on my calendar. It was to be on Wednesday evening, which is already full with music lessons and grocery shopping, but I managed to make it in “Kootenay Time”, which is to say, ten minutes...
I was referred to Chip Macgregor‘s blog (Chip is an agent and sometime publisher) for statistics on the most successful books of 2007. It turns out only 4 books sold over a million copies this year, and 15 more sold between 50 000 and one million.  Total of 19 books out of the...
It’s challenging at this fledgling state of my writing career to move forward, simply because there are so many paths I could be moving forward on. I started this week beginning to go in depth with my main characters, with the help of strategies learned in Getting Into Character. I got somewhere with my...
I don’t mean wearing a hole in the floor when under stress, I mean building appropriate tension throughout a story! As I continue to mine the bountiful gold of Swain’s “Techniques of the Selling Writer”, pacing has become an issue. My writing prof said it would happen, but I didn’t want to believe her....