Now Reading: Now is the Time by Melvyn Bragg (A Review)
When I first discovered Melvyn Bragg, I was told he was something like a national treasure here in the UK.Continue Reading
Tag: Fiction (Reading)
Why You Should RUE: Resist the Urge to Explain
“…by never explaining her situations, by trusting her readers to keep up her, [the author] pays her readers the compliment of assuming them to be intelligent. And that’s a compliment any writer would do well to pass along.”
Character Voice & Individuality: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
…the individuality of character voices creates, in the mind, a world with two unique individuals with subconscious (or otherwise) agendas, hopes, desires, and tells.
Now Reading: The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
The characters and circumstances in Margaret Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last creeped and crawled under my skin, and I both loved andContinue Reading
Now Reading: The Circle by Dave Eggers
It’s been years since I read Eggers’s Zeitoun, a compelling true story that carries a message that is, unfortunately, as appropriate nowContinue Reading
Show, Don’t Tell: Anger, Nervousness, Fear (Example)
Anger, nervousness, and fear: These are the names we’ve given to poignant and complex emotions that can overpower even ZenoContinue Reading
For the Love of the Story 