The Arachne Project
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All right. Who just muttered “create a schedule”? That is exactly the kind of killjoy advice that drives people to Google in the first place. I mean if you could schedule it in, you would, right? You can’t. And that’s the problem. Making time to write is something I’ve wrestled with between working full-time and…
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I used to keep a deleted scenes folder. Every time I needed to cut a passage from a manuscript, I was reluctant to actually delete it, so I would put it in this folder instead. I told myself those passages were good writing, and someday, I might use bits and pieces in another story. The truth…
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The question is some form of: should you throw down a crappy first draft or should you edit as you write? Every day, I see writers praising the crappy first draft and encouraging new writers to just get it all onto the page. You can fix a mess later, they say. You can’t fix a…
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“Write what you know.” It’s classic writing advice, but recently on social media, I saw someone ask if it was “good” advice. And much to my surprise, a fair number of people said, no. As if it were a ridiculous idea that fiction writers, especially, should know what they’re writing about. While I kind of…
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Book Review: The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks & Sarah Pekkanen I selected this book because it promised a warped love triangle and a twisty turny plot, both of which I love. The Anita Shreve quote on the cover nails the description: “Fiendishly clever…in the vein of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train.”…