I am going to be speaking at the Houston Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association on March 28. Really looking forward to this. You can learn about Houston EFA here: https://www.the-efa.org/chapters/houston/
I am going to be speaking at the Houston Chapter of the Editorial Freelancers Association on March 28. Really looking forward to this. You can learn about Houston EFA here: https://www.the-efa.org/chapters/houston/
Hawai`i/California Author Leslie Karst I first met Leslie in March at Left Coast Crime in Honolulu where she and I shared a panel on writing mysteries about Hawai`i. From an early age through conversations with her parents, Leslie learned the value of both careful analysis and the arts—ideal ingredients, she says, for writing mysteries. Ingredients …
Revising: Act I In the last post on revising, I summarized each scene on an index card and organized all of the cards into five groups—Act I, Act II-first part, Center point, Act II-second part, Act III. What determines what goes into each act? One consideration is simply page count. The first act should take …
Red Christmas I am stepping away from revising this week because I am working on formatting a story for sale on Kindle. The story is Red Christmas. It is a republication of a story that was published in The Shamus Sampler II, edited by Jochem Vandersteen. The original story was titled, IFHC. I changed the …
Revising in Three Acts All stories have three acts, so says Aristotle in Poetics. Who am I to argue with Aristotle? What are the three acts? We could simply call them beginning, middle, and end, but that doesn’t tell us anything. Everything has a beginning, a middle, and an end—a vacation, a dinner, a war, …
In this post, I discuss revising a novel, part 1 of multiple parts.
Hawaiian Noir 