In this day and age, writers have to engage readers from the first page. How do we do that? Curiosity. We must fill a reader’s head with qu...

Hi. This month I want to share a blog I wrote recently. Sometimes it's good to revisit the basics in the craft of writing. It's...

Greetings! This is a very special and emotional post, as it is my final Novel Spaces post after 8 priceless years as a Novelnaut. I have ...

by Linda Thorne I posted this on Buried Under Books a few years ago. I thought I'd bring it out again with minor changes since it...

image courtesy of pixabay, pexels             Let’s get one thing out of the way right from the get-go: I do not write political post...

Double Indemnity (1944) is my all-time favorite movie, one that I urge all crime writers to study. The superb dialog, with its emphasis ...