It could simply have been a story of two opposite sisters in a difficult family situation in 1940s France. But The Nightingale is big and compelling by being set in WWII and treating even characters o...
On Writing
Working on a full-length work of fiction or memoir can easily lead to a desert of self-doubt. Misgivings arise regarding the tremendous amount of time being invested because, inevitably, other things...
The truths keep coming. Or is it more of a noticing? Like when you get a new car and suddenly observe that people have that same car all over the place, and you’ve never realized it before. Except…dif...
We all heard the question, "Are you telling the truth?" often enough as children, but until recently, I never thought to ask it of my fiction writing. An earlier inquiry might have saved me years of r...
Reading exposes us to writing conventions, and what works That being a fiction reader is essential to being a fiction writer is a conventional wisdom in the writing realm. Stephen King is blunt about...
