by Wordsmith | Jan 10, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective
Every creative person needs a Bliss Station, a special place where you do you work. Joseph Campbell wrote the following in The Power of Myth: “You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that...
by Wordsmith | Jan 9, 2022 | A Writer's Life
Be on the lookout for characters everywhere you go. Find inspiration for your main characters and your supporting cast using keen observation. Your characters will be a conglomerate of people you know, people you meet, and people you observe. The people in your...
by Wordsmith | Jan 6, 2022 | A Writer's Life
Jack Kerouac was a writer and one of the pioneers of The Beat Generation, a lofty group of writers that included William S. Boroughs, and Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac was noted for his “Stream of Consciousness” approach to writing, where he wrote what...
by Wordsmith | Jan 4, 2022 | A Writer's Life
Elmore Leonard was a prolific author who wrote many best selling novels including Punch Drunk, Get Shorty and Maximum Bob, some of which were made into movies. I enjoyed many of Elmore’s novels. He came up with Ten Rules of Writing, which I follow. I’d...
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 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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