During class last week, one of my students asked about the importance of creating a character for our stories. I responded with this quote: “For me, the novel is character creation. Style is nice, plot is nice, structure is OK, social significance is OK, symbolism worms its way in, timeliness is OK too, but unless […]
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Ten Sentences
I had an epiphany before class last week. Instead of simply giving my students a ten-minute writing prompt, I would change the game up a bit, forcing them to use even more creativity and description. Here is the assignment: Using only ten sentences, tell us a story with a beginning and ending. Every word should […]
What’s YOUR Story?
“Don’t ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that’s what they’re there for. Use your library). Don’t apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend’s copy. What’s important to me is that people read the […]
High Rises and Hard Falls
Edlund Design does it again. When I was developing a media presence for my work featuring Adrian Tannhauser, I turned to Nick Edlund, one of my oldest and dearest friends for the visuals. Edlund Design specializes in creative and effective design for print and digital media. Nick reads each of the Tannhauser stories, zeroes in […]
An evening with Me! Or, Come for the Nibbles; Stay for the Arts.
I have always enjoyed attending author events. I remember hearing Raymond Feist speak for a very long time about creating Midkemia, once his D&D-based realm and also the setting for his Riftwar universe. Hearing Seth Harwood talk about the origins of The Maltese Jordans at Porter Square Books was wonderful, partially because it was wonderful […]
The Sound of Ground – An Interview and Reading by Yours Truly
I did an interview today with Seth Harwood discussing the evolution of private eye Adrian Tannhauser, a little bit of my own evolution, and I even read a little bit from my first published short story “Green River.” Check it out right here! Would you say that he’s (Adrian Tannhauser) out of the mold of […]
