Success as a Writer: How Badly do You Want it?

Success as a Writer: How Badly do You Want it?

Success as a writer is never easy as this tale shows… One of the Oscar nominated films this year is The Fighter, conceived by and starring Mark Wahlberg. See it – even if you’re not into boxing – it is a triumph of writing and acting based on a true story known...
The Novel: How to Craft a Work of Art

The Novel: How to Craft a Work of Art

If you want to see a room full of writers go ballistic, right up there with a lynch mob on the hysteria scale, tell them there really is a formula for writing a novel.  A list of elements and criteria that define the nature of the work. They probably already know that...