Synopses are the bane of a writer’s existence. Elevator pitch, logline, plot summary—whatever you call it, boiling down hundreds of pages to a handful of sentences is tantamount to torture for most novelists.
A month ago, I asked readers to vote for their favorite cover treatment for The Renegade Chronicles. After tallying up the votes, I’m delighted to report we have a clear winner.
The beauty of words is that they paint pictures in the mind, but when you consider those black lines, dots, and curves on a blank backdrop, words themselves are nothing to write home about.
My favorite questions tend to start with “what if.” Lately, however, this writer has been asking himself, “What now?”
When a writing project spans years, it’s important to acknowledge milestones along the way.
Giving grammar short shrift is a surefire way to get shot down.
Back when I worked in a newsroom, a colleague of mine was wont to say, “Everyone loves old photos.” I believe the Throwback Thursday (#TBT) trend serves as further proof of mankind’s fondness for looking back.
An unfortunate truth about experiments: they often end in failure.
Here’s the good news: self-publishing puts authors in control of nearly every aspect of the publishing process. That’s also the bad news.
Despite having written between one and two million words to date, only a handful of them were spent in pursuit of poetry. And whenever I did venture from the comfort zone of fiction, it was typically because a teacher assigned it.