For Authors

This section of my site provides a convenient place for me to post articles that may be of interest to my fellow authors. These relate to both the art of writing and the technical "nuts and bolts".

• The Right Way to Write a Novel New!
• Patterns in Time: Character Lifelines and Story Structure New!
• Mistress of Time
• What Comes Next? Building Suspense and Avoiding Predictability
• Playing with the Passive
• Creating a successful synopsis
• Writing effective dialogue
• Description: how much is enough?
• HTML 101: An introduction to web coding for authors
• More HTML Fun for Authors
• The End of Innocence: Moving from personal fantasy to professional fiction
• So You Want to be A Writer... Ten Tips from Someone Who's Been There