by Linden Gross | Jun 2, 2022 | Publishing, Success Stories, Writing, Writing Coach Services
“So what took so long to write your first book?” Authors Over 50 podcast host Julia Brewer asked my writing coach client Jeff Hutcheson, author of Going Barefoot: A Lost Key Mystery. That’s how she starts every interview she does with the authors...
by Linden Gross | May 26, 2022 | Writing
Are you thinking of writing a memoir? Some years back, memoirs were hot, hot, hot in the publishing world. These days, they’re not, not, not. But that doesn’t mean that plenty of people still don’t want to write them. (How’s that for a double negative!) And just...
by Linden Gross | May 19, 2022 | Editing, Writing
So you think your book is finished and you’re done? Sure, you’ve completed that first draft of your book. Or maybe even the second. How great is that? Despite your splendid accomplishment, odds are that your book is not ready for prime time. Most of us...
by Linden Gross | May 5, 2022 | Writing, Writing Life
Of all the words that describe Moke, my fourteen-week-old English Cocker Spaniel, spunky would have to be right at the top of the list. He is absolutely unphased when his three-year-old brother, Misha, who is easily ten times his size and seven times his weight lunges...
by Linden Gross | Mar 31, 2022 | Language, Writing
Most writers realize that writing dialogue can be a way to show rather than tell a story. Too often, however, they’ll take a long expository passage, put quotes around it and let a character make what amounts to a speech. For starters, that’s not how most...
by Linden Gross | Mar 24, 2022 | Children's Books, Writing
In Judy Blume’s MasterClass about writing for younger readers, the mega-bestselling children’s book author talks about how she saves news clippings and scribbles ideas for plots, characters and their backstories, snippets of conversation she overhears, and...
