One of the most fundamental techniques of fiction writing is skillful creation of tension, sometimes referred to as conflict. Our favorite authors hook us on page one with a character so compelling that we read further to find out what happens. The character is engaging, with likeable traits that endear […]
CWG MEMBER NEWS
Sarah Reinhard on The Catholics Next Door Sarah Reinhard will be interviewed on The Catholics Next Door with Greg and Jennifer Willits this Friday, February, 2012. Listen for Sarah at 2:20 EST discussing her newest book. The Catholics Next Door are on Sirius Radio channel 129, The Catholic Channel, Monday through […]
CWG NEWS
SHORT STORIES ABOUND 2011 was a fruitful year for CWG member Walt Staples. Five of his short stories were published at various fiction sites and “his stuff,” as Staples calls his writing, appeared in Splashdown Books’ anthology Aquasynthesis (2011). You can also find Staples and his most recent works at […]
Why I Never Get Any Writing Done
I am a slow writer, a failing demonstrated by the factoid that I started this post in Mycenaean, had to switch to Celt-Iberian, then Saxon, and finally Elizabethan English (I figure I’ll touch this up as I post the final version). You have no idea what a hassle it is […]
Lack of Sleep = Lack of Blogging
There’s nothing like a night of no sleep to put life firmly “in the way” of my blogging and writing, let me tell ya! My answer to that this week was to put up a “out of office” post and just forgive myself…and try to appreciate the lack of screaming, […]
"You talk like you was there."
Hearing voices in your head can be a good thing. At least it can be if you’re a writer. One of the three legs of a good story is characterization. Three things paint the character’s portrait for the reader: description, action, and dialogue. The first is usually the easiest for […]
Abstract: A New Paradigm in Interaction of Small Quadruped Mammalian Life Versus Artificial Intelligence.
Posted by Walt A large number of writers work for cats. In a chat at the end of the recent Catholic Writers’ Conference Online 2011, someone mentioned cats and a flood of war stories inundated the chat room. Everyone, it seemed, had one or fifteen to tell about their fur-covered […]