One Bite at a Time

The Beloved Spousal Equivalent and I finally got around to watching Clint Eastwood’s Gran Torino last weekend. I wish I could remember what...

“Raising the stakes” is the buzzword for thriller writers. Books that purport to tell authors how to write best-selling or breakout novels u...

Writers’ opinions of their work in progress fluctuate like an amusement park ride with an operator methed to the eyeballs. “This might be th...

Peter Rozovsky is the creator of the popular and award-winning blog, Detectives Beyond Borders , which focuses on crime fiction written outs...

The current challenge from Patti Abbott's blog is to write a piece of flash fiction (less than 1,000 words) that included "a weddin...

No one has control over their impulses; we can only manage our responses. The brave man is not the one with no fear. It’s the one who faces ...

Tomorrow is one month since I temporarily set aside the work in progress to re-evaluate the plot. Since then, I solved the problems that hel...