I seek to take my audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride, a journey of laughter and tears and every sentiment in between.
Like Elmore Leonard and Donald Westlake and Robert B. Parker and oh so many others, I want to die with my boots on, facedown on my keyboard if possible, in the middle of a sentence.
Does any program really improve anybody, as much as simply identifying them? And, after identifying them, not ruining them?
I often said that writers are of two types.There is the architect, which is one type. The architect, as if designing a building, lays out the entire novel at a time. He knows how many rooms there will...