Inspired Endings – That State of Transendence
I have written before about the inspired ending to Patrick Hamilton’s ‘The Slaves of Solitude’, which is, along with ‘Hangover Square’ considered to be his
June 11, 2022
I have written before about the inspired ending to Patrick Hamilton’s ‘The Slaves of Solitude’, which is, along with ‘Hangover Square’ considered to be his
I read something the other day that made me think (unaccustomed exercise: new pathways created, and all that). It was actually in an intriguing book
The quote is, of course, from Zuckerman’s book ‘Writing the Block Buster Novel’. It is made with reference to a certain Don Corleone. Zuckerman is
I first read this at seventeen, longer ago than I care to admit. I thought the writing style was poor in places even then. I
It being New Year, and a time of resolutions – even during a dismal and lengthy pandemic – I am making several, and one in
Re-reading my favourite novel by Margaret Atwood, ‘Bodily Harm’, made me wonder, as I have done before, whether or not you have to identify strongly
It being the first of January 2020 today, it is of course, the time for New Year’s resolutions. In the western sphere, it seems that
It was horrible, but there was nothing else for it. I have just had to jettison about 40,000 words of my latest. I had
I have just finished reading Jordan Rosenfeld’s ‘How to Write a Page Turner’. I thought the advice in it was invaluable. Not only that, but
I don’t know how much most authors base their characters on people they have known. I would guess that most combine various characteristics taken from
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