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Explanation vs. Fascination–And a Woman in the Corner Opposite
Where do our desires come from? Put differently, how much control do we exert over what we want? This question has been haunting me lately, not just in my own life but in the lives of my characters....
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Touch the Hearts of Your Readers: Entangle Their Emotions
My mom, in better days, getting her parish priest liquored up on her birthday Chapter 1: Out in the Cold A couple of months ago, I had a troubling task. I was down in Southern California at my mom’s,...
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Third Level Emotions
In drafting your novel, would you leave out dialogue? Would you fail to include action or events? Would you ensure that nothing is described? Would you forego theme, forget mood, ignore time, eschew...
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Building a Chapter for Emotional Impact
photo adapted / Horia Varlan Backstory: when do you include it? Waiting until a question has been raised to which only an earlier scene can provide an answer is a sound way of maintaining psychological...
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Writing from the Heart – Lessons of Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory”
Photo by Isakarakus via Pixabay Free License “All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.” – Ernest Hemingway A few years ago, I undertook a private...
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