fiction with a dark edge
Who doesn’t love statistics? Okay, maybe not everyone. But statistics can be exciting when they have immediate relevance, like the stats Word Press and other blogging tools offer. Thanks to those, I discovered that the search term people used most often to find my blog in the past year has been the phrase "pain assessment... Continue Reading →
As much as I love writing, sometimes I hate it. After bellyaching for a while about how I don't know what to do with the feedback from my beta readers, I decided to take the cure. Once again, my weekday calendar contains a slot for writing from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. (it's my ROW80... Continue Reading →
I recently reviewed a couple of books on Amazon and Goodreads. Nothing so remarkable about that. But I found myself hesitating a long time before hitting the "submit" button on the Amazon reviews. What confounded me was not writing the reviews but choosing the accompanying star rating. I felt like a woman in labor who... Continue Reading →
A couple of weeks ago I attended a day-long fiction-writing boot camp with Nora Profit, who "teaches writers to be authors" through her business, The Writing Loft. Much of the information was review, but I took away two valuable lessons and one that must be applied judiciously. I wrote in a previous blog post about one... Continue Reading →
You have to be a bit mad to be a writer. In fact, you even have to hear voices. This has become clearer than ever as I reach a new phase in my current novel. I had intended to continue with my plow-ahead writing on the way to reaching the 40,000 words promised as my... Continue Reading →
AUDREY KALMAN 