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...
An Enlightning Interview
Hello and welcome to my blog, Author Interviews. My name is Fiona Mcvie. Let's get you introduced to everyone, shall we? Tell us your...
The Short Story: Point of View Made Simple
POINT OF VIEW (POV) SIMPLIFIED Point of view is the most difficult decision the short story writer has to make. It can be very...
The last look at your manuscript
Received the paperback of my collection for my final approval. Can't quite describe what it felt like to finally hold the book after...
