Stairways to Somewhere Else

Excellent photos & essay about staircases. Loved it.

Required Writing

Something disturbs me about an extra long flight of stairs, especially going down. Why would that be? Maybe because I’m a klutz and fear falling. Certainly the former is true! On a recent trip to New York, I snapped a couple of extra-creepy flights.

Looking down a Manhattan subway escalator.

Perhaps long staircases disturb me because I fear my subconscious. The mystical psychologist Carl Jung talked about stairs that descend to the subconscious, as I was fascinated to recently learn. Well, okay, re-learn, because I was surprised to read it in (my own damn) novel, Was It A Rat I Saw, which I wrote a couple decades ago. But I digress. Anyway, I don’t fear my subconscious, I’m fascinated by all the things it seems to know that I don’t – and there’s no question that I get my best ideas from it!

Entrance to Le Poisson Rouge, a club in Greenwich Village.

I’m joking around…

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MY INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR MARSHA ROBERTS

Excellent interview: MY INTERVIEW WITH AUTHOR MARSHA ROBERTS.

How To Write A Great Essay About Anything

Read Like a Writer (Thoughts & Ideas)

Read Like a Writer (Thoughts & Ideas). Good suggestions.

Book Review: Let The Tornado Come by Rita Zoey Chin

Excellent review. Made me want to read Let the Tornado come by Rita Zoey Chin.

Featured Author: Cynthia Ainsworthe

Great interview.

"Lori's Song" A BLOG about

Featured Author:

 Cynthia B. Ainsworthe

 

1.   Please introduce yourself. Tell us a little about the person behind the pen.

I’ve always have been interested in writing since childhood, around the age of eleven or twelve. A career in writing was not supported by my father. At that time, he gave me the choice of “suitable” life-paths for women.

2.    What made you decide to write (the genre of your book), were there any influencing factors, or were any of the stories based on true events. 

Romance has always been my favorite genre with a suspense component. The dynamics of a relationship with feelings not verbally expressed which can prove chaotic to characters fascinates my imagination. Words not said that should have been revealed can lead to misunderstandings and gross assumptions.

All my plots are fiction. Characters are a composite of people I have known or observed…

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Perfecting Your Novel’s Opening Page: Advice from Novelist Emma Rea

Good ideas.

This Craft Called Writing

I’m very pleased to welcome Emma Rea, author of Top Dog, who has some really helpful advice on perfecting your novel’s opening page with the help of a little x-ray vision.

Last Minute X-Ray Vision

The importance of the first page can’t be over-emphasised. For the rest of the novel, you can just tell your story. On the first page, however, you not only have to get your story off to a roaring start, but you have ‘admin’ jobs to do, by which I mean establishing things like age, setting, character – and you have to slip these in so the reader has the information they need without feeling as if they’ve been clobbered over the head with it. I rewrote the first chapter of Top Dog countless times, feeling as if I was coming at it from different angles, chipping away until I found the clearest, simplest start…

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Vigilante Justice – Nothing To Lose

Vigilante Justice – Nothing To Lose.