Archive for March, 2007
Tips from “The First Five Pages”
I heard somewhere of Noah Lukeman’s The First Five Pages: A Writer’s Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile so when I saw it on the library shelf I grabbed it. And yesterday during 40+ degree heat, I devoured it. Full of really useful advice, it’s an editor’s viewpoint on what gets a novel [...]
A breakthrough in structure
Over at my Ballerina blog, I’ve already explained my fascinating afternoon with five British and American novelists, and the importance of being reminded that they’re really quite normal people, just like me. Yes, I can also be a published novelist. It was also great to hear some of their thoughts on novel structure – for [...]