Place for the Stolen
Like that one guy said: Good writers borrow, great writers steal. Welcome to the place where all things have been lifted, looted, and otherwise pilfered…Remember, possession is 9/10s of the law.
Mentors*
*Writing advice stolen from the pros and filtered through me (with occasional help from my buddy Ali).
Agatha Christie
The Bestsellingest Author Ever: Agatha Christie!
The Solution to the Pop-Up Character Syndrome in Mysteries
Plato and Aristotle Weigh in on Agatha Christie
Product-of-Your-Time Rhetoric – Is Awareness the Answer?
How Fast the Machine Can Get Out of Hand
Meditating on What Makes Poirot a Good Series Character
Consistency of Physical Description
Can Series Characters Get in the Way?
The Character Who Got Away…Maybe
Young Marple? Jennifer Garner? What?
Genre vs. Literary: It’s Not a New Debate
The Literary Portion of the Detective Novel
Two Different Ends to Two Different Series
Thursday Reviews: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (A Mentor Review!)
Thursday Reviews: Cards on the Table by Agatha Christie (A Mentor Review!)
Thursday Reviews: Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie (A Mentor Review!)
J.D.Robb/Nora Roberts
Kicking Off 2017 with Nora Roberts
Pace Yourself: Using Nora Roberts’ Insane Productivity to Inspire Your Own
7 Things to Think About When Writing the Future or the Past
Jack Kerouac
The Great American Novel and Jack Kerouac
The Kerouac-Ginsberg Letters: You Have to Write More than You Think
Kerouac, Burroughs, and Direct Collaboration
Kerouac’s Collaborative Circle: Indirect Collaboration
Lightning, the Lightning Bug, and the Price of Some of Kerouac’s Revisions
Writing the Windblown, Schizophrenic World
Kerouac’s Genius/Interpreter Theory vs. Jenny’s Genius/Genius Theory
Margaret Atwood
Farewell Gaiman, Welcome Atwood
Mentors Coming Along Right When You Need Them
Answering Questions with Questions
What Do Chapter Titles Reveal About Your Book (Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake)
In Related Margaret Atwood News…
Thursday Reviews: Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
A Margaret Atwood Inspired Short
Thursday Reviews!: Good Bones and Simple Murders by Margaret Atwood
Chapters in Which Something Happens
You Say To-may-to, I Say To-mah-to: Define Your Terms
Margaret Atwood on Her Creative Process
New Short Story from Our Mentor!
Myth, History, and Belief Systems
Better Read Millennials, Stephen King’s Ancestors, and a Piece of Writing You’ll Never See
Mary Shelley
Write Expecting to be Read: Mary Shelley’s Journals
White Paper – Wilt Thou Be My Confident?: Grief and Creation
Matt Ruff
2 Things I Learned About History’s Role in Writing from Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
Neil Gaiman
New Year, New You, New Mentor: Neil Gaiman
Seeing in the Dark: The YA Novel in General and The Graveyard Book in Particular
Thursday Reviews!: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (A Mentor Review!)
Chapters in Which Something Happens
The Second Reason to Read Widely: It’s Probably Been Done
Expect the Unexpected: Turning
Neil Gaiman Selected Shorts Interview
Jenny Maloney
I write dark fiction that my mother hates. I also review mysteries for criminalelement.com. When not writing fiction/reviews, I'm creating plays at Springs Ensemble Theatre in Colorado Springs.
