by Susanne | Sep 22, 2017 | Publishing business, Writing life
It’s a question I get frequently when I bemoan the fact that I haven’t had a book published in five years, despite writing several that I (and my agent) think are good and worth publishing. [Full disclosure: I did put two e-books of unpublished manuscripts...
by Susanne | Sep 15, 2017 | Editing, Writing craft, Writing life
If you’re an aspiring writer and you’ve explored options for working with a developmental editor, or a story coach, or any of the other titles people give someone who is going to help you scrub and polish and tweak and twist your story into decent shape,...
by Susanne | Sep 5, 2017 | Writing craft, Writing life
The idea of structure in a novel used to scare me. I had images of an ossified underpinning that hampered creativity, interrupted the flow of prose and character development. In the past few years, I’ve decided to overcome that fear. I realized that it’s...
by Susanne | Sep 2, 2017 | Random thoughts, Soul searching, Writing life
Why is the world the way it is? Why are people incapable of just letting each other live in peace? Why do good people sometimes do bad things? Those are some of the whys I’ve been pondering lately. But the biggest one, perhaps because it’s personal, is why...
by Susanne | Aug 29, 2017 | Writing life
At a time when life was difficult and confusing—more difficult and confusing than it normally is—I discovered Virginia Woolf. I was in my twenties, living in London in the days before connecting with friends and family far away was easy and cheap, before the Internet,...
