by Yale Larsson | Dec 19, 2021 | Yale's Perspective
The PI business is tough. Sometimes very tough. To be a good PI, you’ve got to think on your feet and react, sometimes very quickly. To quote an old cliche, “If you snooze, you lose.” In the PI business, loss can be fatal. I almost lost my life when...
by Wordsmith | Dec 11, 2021 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective
Characters are the life blood of a good story. Without compelling characters, you can have the best story arc in the world, but the story will fall flat. When you write a series like my Yale Larsson PI series, you have recurring characters. And when you use a...
by Wordsmith | Dec 9, 2021 | Doug's Stuff
Writers are readers. We read books in our genres, at least we should be, read books for instruction and read books for inspiration. The following is a list of my favorite books on writing and creativity: On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King—I read this...
by Wordsmith | Dec 2, 2021 | A Writer's Life
You’ll find potential characters for your books everywhere you go; the snotty waitress in the restaurant you’ll never dine at again, the street artist wearing tattered jeans and a paint-spattered tee-shirt sketching people in the park or the short-order cook who sings...
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