by Wordsmith | Sep 21, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective, Doug's Stuff
Pay attention to what’s happening around you. Those snippets of conversation you overheard in a restaurant or supermarket, the car you saw going the wrong way down a one-way street in the busiest part of town during rush hour, the elderly man limping down a dark alley...
by Wordsmith | Sep 19, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective, Doug's Stuff
Notice what’s happening around you. As you go about your daily routine, notice the exciting, the mundane, the insane. Jot it down to remember the moment or person that got your attention. You can use your phone to record the information, or if you’re old school like...
by Wordsmith | Sep 12, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective
Ernest Hemingway said to write what you know. I don’t think he meant this in the autobiographical sense. He meant to weave things you know into your fiction. I’m a photographer. I’m also a geek. So bits of those facets of my life are woven into my Yale Larsson Private...
by Wordsmith | Sep 9, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective, Doug's Stuff
My favorite authors are James W. Hall, Robert Crais and Lee Child. They write novels that keep me turning pages. I also learn a lot about writing fiction from these authors. James W. Hall creates compelling stories about a loner named Thorn. For Thorn trouble seems...
by Wordsmith | Aug 29, 2022 | A Writer's Life, Doug's Perspective
Authors need to be good listeners. When you listen, you learn. And you may just uncover a great line of dialogue or a name for a character. I remember shopping for clothes in a department store. As I was waiting to go into the dressing room to try on a pair of pants,...
by Wordsmith | Aug 24, 2022 | Doug's Perspective, Doug's Stuff
An excerpt from the first draft of my latest Yale Larsson Private Investigator novel. ****************************** At the Big Bucks, we had coffee and bagels. When I told Perkowski Keith was going into the belly of the beast, he fitted a wire to my friend, and gave...
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