Originally published on Facebook 10 October 2014 Here’s a secret. All fiction writers have limitations. All good fiction writers are acutely aware of their limitations. All good fiction writers are therefore constantly working on ways to hide those limitations, to distract you from them, to wave their hands so that you don’t notice them. And, […]
I have an idea for a novel. Let’s give it a Ludlumesque name: “The Smith Violation.” I have had this idea for years. It is one of a bunch of novel ideas I have that I have, at most, toyed with; this one I’ve written a few thousand words of, nothing more. Rape is a […]
From time to time the following comedic trope appears in movies or television: the totally out-of-control ego monster of a prominent author, who abuses everybody who gets within twenty feet of him, who must be tended by a full-time handler from the publisher, to make sure he gets his latest book done. I have seen […]