by Mary Winter | Jan 19, 2019 | Personal Writing Life, Writing Craft
My writing resource this week is my playlist. As I put on Il Divo and Amici Forever to listen to while I write my scene set in the Budapest Symphony Orchestra for a new series I’ll be telling you about tomorrow, to me music is life. When I wrote Cowboy Up, I...
by Mary Winter | Dec 27, 2018 | Writing Business, Writing Craft
Ursula K. Le Guin was, and remains to this day, a luminary in the speculative fiction genre. Her work was transformative, ground breaking, and her wisdom contains much that authors today can learn from. When I saw this article in my Pocket feed this afternoon, it...
by Mary Winter | Nov 29, 2018 | Writing Craft
One of the most disturbing things I’ve heard this year is authors who have published within the last year or two saying they don’t read in the genre in which they write. They’re afraid of tainting their story with something they’ve read. And...
by Mary Winter | Apr 25, 2017 | Writing Craft
Finding local writing inspiration seems like a far-off thing a lot of times. The books you read about hot billionares all take place in New York City, LA, or other big locales. Small towns and coastal harbors seem to be the du jour place to set your novel. So for...
by Mary Winter | Apr 17, 2017 | Writing Craft
Back in the mid-90’s I wrote an article for an RWA newsletter entitled, “Are We Losing Our Imaginations?”. This was after reading a Topaz romance where the bad guy spoke exactly like Yoda, and the hero pointed his finger and said “engage”...
