Ten Rules for Writing
The Guardian in Great Britain approached a number of writers, such as Elmore Leonard, Annie Proulx, Ian Rankin, and Zadie Smith, to get ten rules of writing fiction from each. They have some interesting advice and certainly there’s something in there each of us can learn from. Check it out here. A couple of writers…
continue readingTwelve Hawks Television Rights Sold to Fox
Secretive author John Twelve Hawks has sold the television rights to his Fourth Realm Trilogy to Fox, according to Reuters. No word yet on if the shows writers will have to adopt Twelve Hawks’s habit of using voice scramblers on phone calls.
continue readingThe Science of Tone
Most of you certainly know that my love of guitars rivals my obsession with books. I got an opportunity to explore that love a bit recently for Premier Guitar magazine. The cool folks over there asked me to write an article on the science of tone. Which turned out to be quite a challenge. Like…
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