by Susanne | Sep 20, 2017 | Writing craft, Writing life
I’ve often thought about writing out random scenes, things that I see my characters doing, or events I know my characters will interact with at some point in the story. It’s pretty easy, in fact, to make a list of those scenes, and soon it becomes obvious...
by Susanne | Sep 19, 2017 | Early cinema, Research
I was never a true aficionado, but I’d watched my share of silents: D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin etc. While doing research for my two existing (unpublished) novels that take place around 1910 in New York, I was astonished to see just how much...
by Susanne | Sep 11, 2017 | Soul searching, Writing craft, Writing life
As promised, here’s the scoop on the workshop with Randy Susan Myers Saturday: I came in thinking all I had was a jumble of research that would never amount to anything. I left thinking there’s a story in there after all. I don’t know how much was...
by Susanne | Sep 1, 2017 | Writing life
OK, that’s kind of a nerdy thing to get excited about, but my historical novelist friends probably know the feeling. I’m digging around, reading, making a timeline, trying to connect the dots, looking for the story, and every time I stumble on another fact...
