by Linden Gross | Oct 7, 2021 | Writing
I’ve loved historical fiction ever since I was a kid. When growing up in Paris, I got hooked on The Three Musketeers and eventually powered through the unabridged versions of all the rest of Alexandre Dumas’ novels (in French, mind you!). Decades later,...
by Linden Gross | Sep 23, 2021 | Writing
Did you know that while there are more than a dozen and a half fiction genres, each fiction genre has sub-genres? Add all those up and you wind up with more than a hundred. Why should you care? Because understanding your exact genre and sub-genre will help you market...
by Linden Gross | Sep 16, 2021 | Writing
Dialogue is a great way to bring your writing to life and move your story along. But only if it’s authentic dialogue. And only if it’s not exposition disguised as dialogue. What’s exposition, you ask? The dictionary defines it as “a...
by Linden Gross | Aug 26, 2021 | Writing
I talk a lot about what I call story showing. Letting readers experience what you’re writing about rather than just telling them about it is clearly the best way to communicate, an insight I share liberally. “Show don’t tell,” I say again and again in as many ways as...
by Linden Gross | Aug 19, 2021 | Children's Books, Writing
So, you want to write a kids’ book? I know the feeling. I came up with the idea for my children’s easy reader book series after a friend told me the nicknames she and her little brother had been given growing up. That gave me my children’s book characters. I...
by Linden Gross | Aug 5, 2021 | Writing, Writing Coach Services, Writing Life
I recently read a terrific article about the problems writers face and what to do about them. Writer, life coach and therapist Dana Shavin–or the editors at The Writer Magazine–called the piece “15 of the Most Common Causes of Writer’s Block – and...
