Good call. Elmore Leonard is definitely on the slate. Blood Simple is a Cohen brothers movie right? Thanks for the tips!
Perhaps it comes down to how consistent your character is with using the word as a nickname. If he/she addresses their mother as "Mother"...
I started a writing blog and realized there were a thousand other writing blogs doing it better than I was. I also noticed I would go write a blog...
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There's lots to write about in the US.
Absolutely. I'm only a couple chapters into BM but the craftsmanship is evident and impressive. I think I'll be adding the whole back catalog to...
Hey Buddy. I picked up a collection of memoirs and fiction by a guy named Waverly Traylor from Barnes and Noble's website (only available in Nook...
"The Great Scot" by Duncan A. Bruce. Not terribly well written, but a fun read if you're in to European history (or a Braveheart fan). It's...
I'm not a Lovecraft expert but I did enjoy "At the Mountains of Madness" quite a bit. It's great to read some of his works and recognize the...
I just finished reading "The Outlaw Album", a short story collection by Daniel Woodrell and loved it. Some stories worked better than others, but...
Even more (or less) ironically, Paris is also a city in France. I don't know if this fits the tone of your story or not, but in "Revenge of the...
If I were writing it I would move out of dialog mode and into action mode. She could state her doubts about the sincerity of his propositioning...
I'm just as much of an amateur here as anyone else but I've been a consumer of indie, amateur, and digital media (games, music, fiction, film)...
News stories provide lots of information. Pick a local news website (usually a TV channel) from a non-local place. For instance, I live in...
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