TED CHIANG’s amazing imagination together with his knowledge of math, science, mechanics, and linguistics has gifted us with a volume… Read more FIVE STAR: A STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF THE SCI-FI SHORT STORY “STORY OF YOUR LIFE.”
Category: READING FOR WRITERS BLOG
Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
Classic: Roget’s Thesaurus. Online: powerthesaurus.org Dictionaries: The Oxford English Dictionary (OED), especially useful for establishing historical word use Webster’s Encyclopedic… Read more Putting on the Wellies: Home Research
FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
Jonathan Letham: THE FERAL DETECTIVE. A gripping journey, in the company of Phoebe and the feral Detective Charles Heist, into… Read more FIVE STAR Novels of Missing Persons
FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS
Elliott Downing: The Keys of the Kingdom. Self-Published. A compelling short fiction dealing with the public exploitation of private grief… Read more FIVE STAR INDIE BOOKS
FIVE STAR: STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF LOU BERNEY’S NOVEMBER ROAD *****
GENRE: Thriller; 1960s-era picaresque novel. THEME: At one level, Karma; at a deeper level, Free Will as a realization that… Read more FIVE STAR: STRUCTURAL REVIEW OF LOU BERNEY’S NOVEMBER ROAD *****
Putting on the Wellies 8: Conferencing for Crime
From Crime Bake 2018 (Woburn, MA): November 2018 Two incredibly useful lectures this weekend: Geoff Symon (geoffsymon.com) lecture on representing… Read more Putting on the Wellies 8: Conferencing for Crime
Putting on the Wellies 7: Twitter
I didn’t know how and I’m still feeling my way in my rubber boots, but the Twitter writing community has… Read more Putting on the Wellies 7: Twitter
FIVE STAR: WHO DOES IT BEST? Emotional Connection
I’d nominate Laini Taylor for one of the spots, particularly in the YA fantasy STRANGE THE DREAMER, for her ability… Read more FIVE STAR: WHO DOES IT BEST? Emotional Connection
POINT OF VIEW 3: Omniscient
A beautiful rendition of an omniscient narrator who is also an actor within the story is to be found in… Read more POINT OF VIEW 3: Omniscient
Putting on the Wellies Again: 6
How much time is wasted researching agents and wish lists and twitter-stalking fave writers and wishing for facility with one-liner… Read more Putting on the Wellies Again: 6