Maria McKenzie

"A dialogue is more than two monologues." Max Kampelman My favorite part of fiction writing is dialogue. It serves many purposes. ...

Men and women are different--especially where communication is concerned! Ever struggle with gender specific dialogue in your fiction writin...

Save the Ca t  is a great book for any writer! Even though the subtitle is  The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need , it's a...

"A dialogue is more than two monologues." Max Kampelman My favorite part of fiction writing is dialogue. It serves many ...

Save the Ca t is a great book for any writer! Even though the subtitle is The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need , it's ...

I was giving someone a little writing advice last week and this post came to mind. If you missed it the first time around, hope you...

"A dialogue is more than two monologues." Max Kampelman My favorite part of fiction writing is dialogue. It serves many purpos...

Men and women are different--especially where communication is concerned! Ever struggle with gender specific dialogue in your fiction writin...

Here's a writing tip that I posted back in April of 2011. If you missed it the first time, hope you find it useful today! Reading isn...

Angela Booth "If you want to become a writer you can; the desire to write is a good indication that you can do it. If you want to be...

"There are, according to whichever authority you listen to, three main plots, or six, or a dozen, and everything else is just a minor v...

 "Read, read, read. Read everything--trash, classics, good and bad,and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as as an a...

"Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself."  Franz Kafka When do you find that time for utter solit...

"This is the true joy of life:  the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead...

"Of all the ways writers find to waste time, waiting for the muse to show up has to be the most common, and fruitless, of them all....

"I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far." Mae West Apparently, the sky is the limit on this topic! Like stove top burne...

"A dialogue is more than two monologues." Max Kampelman My favorite part of fiction writing is dialogue. It serves many purposes. ...

"No man can climb beyond the limitations of his own character." John Morley When developing a hero in your fiction writing, it...