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Book Review: Eyes on the Horizon, by Carrie Lynn Fazzolari
Read more: Book Review: Eyes on the Horizon, by Carrie Lynn FazzolariI met Carrie Lynn Fazzolari at the Wildacres Writer’s Conference in 2010, and we have been friends on Facebook for most of the time after that. Her book, Eyes on the Horizon, is Carrie’s first novel, and we both worked on our respective first novels at the conference in between other activities. So when she…
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What Writers Can Learn From “Jingle Bells”
Read more: What Writers Can Learn From “Jingle Bells”I suspect most people in the United States are familiar with the Christmas Carol “Jingle Bells.” In fact, it, no doubt, is one of the most familiar carols ever in the US. One particular verse, actually the second, caught my ear many years ago, but just recently I realized how well and how intricately that…
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Tension And Conflict In Writing X 2
Read more: Tension And Conflict In Writing X 2During the past year (2017) I published on this blog two entries about tension and conflict in writing. If you’re a writer at almost any phase of your career, you’ve certainly heard of the dictum—in fact, almost a rule of law—that you have to have tension and/or conflict on every page of your creative writing story. …
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Tension and Conflict
Read more: Tension and ConflictA couple of months ago (on May 7, 2017, to be exact) I posted a blog entry about what I called “The High Tension Of Life.” In this post I suggested that an author should write his/her fictitious stories so that the protagonist isn’t subjected to a high level of tension or conflict entirely through the story. A story like…
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The High Tension of Life
Read more: The High Tension of LifeIn this blog post I want to talk a little about putting tension and conflict into story telling. I’ve just completed reading two science fiction novels (written by the same author) in which I believe the concept of tension was handled badly. I’m not identifying the novels or the author for two reasons. One, this is not a book…