Checklist for Writing Your Thriller
What’s the key to a good thriller? It’s not a formula, but there are basic conventions that thriller writers understand. And then your imagination can take off from there.
Read MorePosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Feb 9, 2018 | Craft, Thriller
What’s the key to a good thriller? It’s not a formula, but there are basic conventions that thriller writers understand. And then your imagination can take off from there.
Read MorePosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Feb 3, 2018 | Life
As career authors, we figure any time is the time to make a new start—our manuscripts start and stop on individual schedules, so why not our writerly resolutions?
Read MorePosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jan 28, 2018 | Writing Prompts
“With our thoughts we make the world,” said Buddha. But what if our character’s thoughts are wrong?
Read MorePosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jan 22, 2018 | Craft
If you are stepping into the middle and you fear you and your masterpiece are about to be victims of book-writing quicksand, no worries. Here are some things you can do.
Read MorePosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jan 7, 2018 | Writing Prompts
Plot advances when characters make choices. How do your characters make theirs?
Read MorePosted by Hank Phillippi Ryan | Jan 3, 2018 | Life
Among other Sue-ish advice, she told me she’d realized if she was going to be a success, she had to own it. All of this is to say—you never know what the world will bring you, and what is around the next corner, and what friends you might make along the way.
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