characters – Roger Floyd's Website

“Coming To Life”

If you are a writer of fiction [and I’ll state here for the record that what I have to say doesn’t really apply to poetry or nonfiction], do your characters come to life on the page for you? Two of mine did just recently. By “coming to life” I mean more than just seeing them…

Strong Women And Book Covers

A few weeks ago I attended a writers conference (or writer’s conference, I’m never sure which is correct) and one of the topics discussed was that of book covers. The cover of a book is important and lots of attention is paid to book covers. The cover—so they tell me—has a lot to do with selling…

Be It Ever So Humble . . .

What’s the hardest part of writing for a writer, especially an unpublished one? The hardest part for me is staying humble. I haven’t found it particularly difficult to force myself to sit down and write every day. I enjoy the process—of putting words down on a computer screen, of rearranging them to better say what I want;…