by Linden Gross | Jun 18, 2026 | Writing
Some scenes you read once and forget. Others haunt you—a quiet kitchen conversation, a moment in a hospital hallway, a hand reaching for another and hesitating. Those are the memorable scenes that linger because they do more than move the plot. They move us. So what...
by Linden Gross | Jun 11, 2026 | Publishing
So you’ve found a few literary agents who might be a fit. Now comes the tricky part—making contact without making waves. Because while agents want to discover new talent, they also want to work with authors who understand the unspoken rules of the game—the literary...
by Linden Gross | Jun 4, 2026 | Uncategorized
When it comes to writers and objectivity, most of us like to think we’re objective about our work, and that we can see both the forest and the trees. We’re not, and we can’t. No matter how seasoned or self-aware we are, bias creeps in—quietly, cleverly, like a...
by Linden Gross | May 28, 2026 | Uncategorized
When people tell me they loved a novel, they rarely say, “Wow, that plot twist was brilliant!” More often, it’s: “I couldn’t stop thinking about the character.” And usually, what they’re really responding to is the character arc—the way an oh-so-human character...
by Linden Gross | May 21, 2026 | Uncategorized
We writers are fantastic starters. We have more beginnings than a stack of unplanted seed packets—novel ideas, essays, poems, children’s books, half-built worlds. Finishing? That’s trickier. Somewhere between the rush of inspiration and the final period,...
