Everyone who has hung out with either pitchers or pitch-hearing agents has heard at least one horror story about a pitch that went on for an hour, because the author did not have the vaguest conception what was
Going through a life transition, he hopes to find himself by retreating to a place he’s never been—his ancestral home of Locharbert, a remote village on the Mull of Kintyre, a mountainous Atlantic peninsula that “hung onto the body of Scotland like an adopted child.” On page two of ...
Pacing means that the events of your story glide into each other, whether it’s a romantic scene followed by a violent scene, a violent scene followed by a humorous exchange, an action scene followed by a quiet denouement, or any combination of different sequences. If at any point during ...
So funny how the opinions of others, that we value, can have us doubting ourselves. I kept my “new do” for only 2 weeks, even though I had planned to rock it for the remainder of the Summer. Truth is, my husband is a simple man, who pretty much likes everything about me, noth...
Here’s the darker side: make (a statement or story) more interesting or entertaining by adding extra details, especially ones that are not true. There is just the slightest difference between good and evil. My daughter was correct. Would wearing them bring in the height of satisfaction viewer...
Besides, unless a writer’s gender (or sex, for that matter) is crucial to the story being told, why should it come up before then? See earlier commentary about being judged by one’s writing, not one’s sex. But if a writer is genuinely worried about it, s/he could always embrace...
Funny thing is; he discovers this in the most humorous way, at his best friends house, regardless of the fact that he is 2000 miles away at school. His best friends name is Andrew, and he goes to school in Colorado. Andrews house was always the 2nd home in his life. Single mom, ...
For example, a sign at the bus stop helps you to know which bus to take. A sign on the wall of your school helps you to find the library. Signs on doors tell you where to go in or out. Have you ever noticed that there are a lot of signs around you and that you receive ...
We first discovered the wonder of the National Park Service's Instagram account when it wasfeatured in Link in Bio, a newsletter about social media. Their account often defies the convention of keeping Instagram captions between 150-300 characters with long, humorous, and engaging captions. ...
Enthralled by the golden age of Science Fiction, Jim has been a reader of same and counts among his SciFi author gods names like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein, Dick, Serling, Ellison and Chandler. And it was this love of SciFi that turned Jim into a new hard-SF short-story writer who has...