Amazon Book Sales
Today I received my first ever check from Amazon for books sales in the amount of 20.99. Sales dates for five books from August...
Confessions of a Very Young Writer
I moved to Rhode Island in the early seventies and had pieces published in each of the three Providence literary journals. A poem in...
The Formative Fragments From An Earlier Age--The Birth of a Writer
In college I won the Robert Frost Poetry Medal and received a copy of Robert Lowell's "For the Union Dead." The medal has since been lost...
Faulkner's Nobel Prize Speech (Stockholm, 1950)
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man but to my work--a life's work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for the...
Dialogue: The Basics
“There's no absolute rule about when you should use dialogue and when you shouldn't, but here's a good generalization: If a stranger...
Setting
SETTING: A story doesn’t take place in a void, the action must take place somewhere. The setting is the laboratory in which to study...
Author Intrusion is Not Point of View
A story is usually told through the mind of one or more character. It’s known as the story’s point of view (POV). The reader is only...