Yesterday, DH needed to visit a bookstore to prepare for an overseas flight. This might sound strange to some folks, but he’s a voracious reader. He has been known to finish a 300 page book on an hour and a half flight. My other errands finished, I met up him at the bookstore. I didn’t…
Reading isn’t quite the same, purely enjoyable experience any more. Heck, even watching movies with DH isn’t. I find I can’t just sit there and passively let the story wash over me. We were watching Akeelah and the Bee when DH turned to me and says, “This is a great study in how to effectively…
When people come over and see my Romance shelf, thirty linear feet of books, they ooh and ah over how many I have accumulated. I’m more impressed by the effort that the authors put into writing them and then getting them to market. Why Read Romance? For me, Romance novels provide a pleasant escape from…
I picked up a variety of books at Borders yesterday. They had a small in the writer’s reference section, but I found a couple that were on my list to check out. 20 Master Plots and how to build them by Ronald B. Tobias. I read this one yesterday. “Plot is a process, not an…
John Gardner’s The Art of Fiction is rough going – for me, the language isn’t friendly or immediately accessible. Lots of good points in there, if I can just untangle it all. DH pointed me to the Turkey City Lexicon this morning. Ah, earthy and practical. Phew! Much easier to read. I will finish the…
I’ve played around with the idea of writing romance novels for a while. In college, I decided I could do better than the ones I’d devoured that summer. I think I got about 8k words into the story and then gave up because I couldn’t decide what would happen next. Last year or so, I…