Throughlines

a recurring character/setting/element anchoring the reader in the story that keeps the reader interested I use throughlines in my own writing and mentioned them previously in Using One-Line Summaries to Write Better Stories and Writing Mentoring. Recent conversations demonstrated confusion; some people thought a throughline is the same as a plot line, some thought a … Continue reading “Throughlines”

Writing Mentoring

  Let me save you some time before reading this post by starting out as I did with Critiques: Online or via Email; Do you want to improve your writing? Are you willing to pay to improve? If the answer to either of those is No then read no further, this post isn’t for you. … Continue reading “Writing Mentoring”

The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 5 (Brand new! Again!)

Yeah. Well. So. As I wrote in The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 6 (Brand new!), The Alibi continues to grow and get restructured. I mentioned in that previous post – Surprise! – Quite a bit got added and edited in June. The throughlines are pretty well established, individual character plotlines are merging. … Continue reading “The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 5 (Brand new! Again!)”

The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 6 (Brand new!)

Yeah. Well. The Alibi continues to grow and get restructured. Surprise! Quite a bit got added and edited in June. The throughlines are pretty well established, individual character plotlines are merging. Characters are changing and growing, allegiances are shifting. The Alibi‘s Boston is a fun place to be. This chapter is one of the ones … Continue reading “The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 6 (Brand new!)”

The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 1 (Redux)

I’ve mentioned a few times how much I work to nail down the opening of whatever I’m working on. Doesn’t matter if it’s a short story, novella, novel, poem, … unless and until that opening sequence is working, everything’s going to suffer because I have no clear direction of where things are heading in the … Continue reading “The Alibi (A John Chance Mystery) – Chapter 1 (Redux)”