✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Want to Write a Thriller?
Ray Calabrese The best thrillers stab the heart, throughout. They do it by getting readers to experience the emotions of the scenes. How can you do that? First, by experiencing them yourself. Sense…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Creating an Antagonist
"How much more chilling is the bad guy who has a strong argument for his actions, or who even engenders a bit of sympathy? The crosscurrents of emotion this will…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Why Do You Want to Write a Book?
"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head." ~ John Updike
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Advice on What to Write
"Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell." ~ P. D. James
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Anatomy of a Story
"There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Duty of the Novelist
"The first duty of the novelist is to entertain. It is a moral duty. People who read your books are sick, sad, traveling, in the hospital waiting room while someone…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ On Character Development
"I sometimes use some personality traits to fashion part of a character. Most of my characters are composites of either people I know or people in the public eye." ~…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ Gaining Writing Perspective
"This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create fiction, but at the same time I needed…
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ It All Comes Back to the Plot
"There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem." ~ Jim Thompson
✒️ Writers’ Wisdom ~ The Art of Writing
"We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our…
