Almost every aspect of fiction writing can be analyzed by the degree to which you the author allow your reader to formulate his own pictures, thoughts, opinions and versions of your story. This is a delicate matter, certainly, because leaving too much out is just as much a travesty as directly telling the reader exactly what […]
Writing is a lonely business. Authors spend the majority of the life of a manuscript in their own heads, fiction authors playing God to a cast of characters in situations of their own devising, and nonfiction authors gathering information they distill into a form that fits their own purpose and vision. As anyone who’s ever […]
Like most writers, we all have day jobs here at The Editorial Department. We’re fortunate that our everyday activities are centered around writing and helping other writers get their books into print but we know how hard it can be to make the time to write. We also know how important it is make time for writing […]
[Guest blog by J.S. Anderson]
For years I struggled with this common little sliver of advice.
What did I know? I was not a detective or former prosecutor. I was not a physician or politician or Olympian or scholar of history. What I knew well was health care administration for the elderly. But despite […]
“So why couldn’t Malfoy have brought that necklace into the school?”
“Oh, Harry, not that again…”
Many readers, ourselves included, echoed Hermione Grangers’ frustration at that point in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.
Readers of this blog know how much we enjoy looking at JK Rowling’s Harry Potter books even after all these years, and the lessons that […]
This blog is part of the Storytelling lessons from Harry Potter series. For part one, click here. For part two, click here. For part three, click here.
These were not places […]
