In a nutshell, the premise is 2006’s The Holiday except played with different situations/characters. It basically is about two people finding unexpected romance after they swap homes for the holidays. However, while the premise is familiar, this isn’t just a slapdash redux of the previous film.
Read more...If somebody’s writing “rule” has the word “never” in it, or can be easily rephrased so as to have the word “never” …
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I do something that is common to a lot of writers: when I’m not writing on one of my own projects, I often spend some of my free time working on fantasy projects. These projects are ones that for various reasons I can’t take on as my own. Right now, I find my imagination has been captured by the new show, Switched at Birth.
Read more...About time. I’ve never been a fan of spoiler warnings. At first they were “until broadcast” in regards to TV, but …
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Before I read a lot of scripts and stories from new writers, I never realized that English teachers have done a great disservice to young people learning to write. These instructors say, “Write what you know.” Poppycock.
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This week’s group blog assignment poses the question: Does your novel have a soundtrack? This is not an inconsequential question for a writer, but to many readers this may seem bizarre.
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I’ve been a long-time fan of Jean M. Auel’s Earth Children series of books: The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980); The Valley of Horses (1982); The Mammoth Hunters (1985); The Plains of Passages (1990); and The Shelters of Stone (2002). As this was supposed to be a hexalogy, and we currently only have five published titles, the question many fans have been asking is: “When will the 6th book be coming out?”
Read more...Yesterday, I finished up the first rewrite of the current novel. As is my standard practice, this is a page-one rewrite of …
Read more...Writing fiction is such an interesting exercise–one that is very familiar to other writers, but also unique to each individual. After many …
Read more...I’m often surprised that after I tell people I’m a writer many become very attentive. Some are struggling writers themselves. Many are …
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