Writing the Impossible Book

Writing the Impossible Book

https://meredithbond.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/magic-ribbon.mp4 Sometimes you think of an amazing story with fantastic characters. When you sit down to write the story, it flows like wine and goes down so easy. You revel in that incredible feeling of...
On Writing Historical Fiction

On Writing Historical Fiction

The hardest part of being a writer of historical fiction is the research. Oh, it’s not always difficult to find resources or to go through them searching for the answers to my questions. No, the hardest part of research is stopping—stopping going through all the...
Four points to finding character voice

Four points to finding character voice

One of the hardest parts of starting a new book, is discovering your character’s voice. Genre fiction is best when it brings the reader deep within the story. As readers, we derive the most pleasure from vicariously living the life of the protagonist. Without...
Getting back to work after a break

Getting back to work after a break

All right, last week I wrote about dictation software that really didn’t work for me because I’m a kinesthetic person (I need the actual act of writing or typing to think and be creative). What I didn’t mention and didn’t talk about was how I was actually doing...
Dictation Software: a trial and a comparison

Dictation Software: a trial and a comparison

Hurray, I have wrists! (In case you haven’t been following along, I broke both my wrists when I slipped on some snow back in mid-December.) I got my casts off last week and now I am working on getting my wrists back in shape. Physical therapy is literally a...