Tag Archives: John Gardner

The Devil May or May Not be in the Details

Posted on July 22, 2016 by Richard Cass

Back in the days when I was the World’s Oldest Living Graduate Student, I submitted a story to a fiction workshop that featured an old woman fly-fishing in an Alaskan river and the things that happened to her. What surprised … Continue reading →

Posted in Dick's Posts | Tagged details, John Gardner | 9 Comments

Ten Tips for Tuning Up Your Descriptions

Posted on June 28, 2016 by mainecrimewriters

Kate Flora: There are so many challenges facing a writer who is trying to craft fiction that sometimes descriptions fall far down the list. By the time an author has developed a cast of characters, created a plot filled with twists … Continue reading →

Posted in Kate's Posts | Tagged fiction writing, Grendel, Joe Burgess, John Gardner, Kate Flora, Rebecca McClanahan, Rodale's Synonym Finder, The Art of Fiction, The Describer's Dictionary, The Things They Carried, Thea Kozak mysteries, Tim O'Brien, Word Painting, writing, writing craft | 21 Comments

Our Favorite Writing Books

Posted on March 9, 2013 by mainecrimewriters

Our group post this weekend is about the writing books that writers turn to. While some writers are “go it alone” types, most writers have some special books about writing that have guided them along the way. Some are books we … Continue reading →

Tagged Adam Olenn, Anatomy of Story, Anne Bernays, Are you My Type am I yours? Relationships made easy through the Enneagram, Bill Rohrbach, Bird by Bird, Blake Snyder, Blood Moon, Characters Emotion and Viewpoint, Christopher Keane, Christopher Vogler, Dave King, Group Post, How to Write a Selling Screenplay, J.M. Cornwell, Jack Bickham, John Gardner, John Truby, Kieran Shields, Lise McClendon, Loren D. Estleman, Maggie Toussaint, Nancy Kress, On Writing, Pamela Painter, Ray Bradbury, Renni Brown, Rita Mae Brown, Robert McKee, Sandra Gardner, Save the Cat, Scene and Structure, Self-editing for Fiction Writers, Starting from Scratch, Stein on Writing, Steven King, Story, The Art of Fiction, The Writer's Guide to Character's Traits, The Writer's Journey, What if?: writing exercises for fiction writers, William Martin, Wired for Story, writing Life Stories, writing the popular novel, Zen and the Art of Writing | 3 Comments

It’s Just My Imagination . . . musings by Kate Flora

Posted on August 24, 2011 by mainecrimewriters

A few years ago, at one of those A-list parties where I was surrounded by some of those “famous” authors whose books are on all our shelves, I was working on an assignment to write a column for a magazine. … Continue reading →