Monthly Archives: July 2013

Good Times

Posted on July 31, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

“Celebrate good times, c’mon!” This peppy line from a Madonna hit popped up on the car radio recently and it seems like the perfect anthem for a book party I just attended to launch the second book in Mackenzie Reide’s … Continue reading →

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Assaulting Citadels

Posted on July 30, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

“There are no ‘classics’ of crime and detection. Not one. Within its frame of reference, which is the only way it should be judged, a classic is a piece of writing which exhausts the possibilities of its form and can … Continue reading →

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Page Turner

Posted on July 29, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

While I was at the beach for a few days some time ago, I craved — what else? — some beach reading! My ever-resourceful sister Steph came to the rescue with a novel by Nora Roberts. Nora’s a phenom — … Continue reading →

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Storytelling Magic

Posted on July 27, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

In a recent interview in The New York Times Book Review, Dan Brown, the author of The Da Vinci Code and the new bestseller, Inferno, talked about the earliest experience he had as a reader that influenced him in a … Continue reading →

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Big Moment

Posted on July 26, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

Sometimes as a writer, a big moment comes your way. And when it does, you have to savor it! And that’s exactly what I’m doing right now. I have been working on my YA novel for some years now. Writing … Continue reading →

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Satisfying Endings

Posted on July 25, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

“One cold hard fact of fiction is that as we’re busy writing the most sophisticated story, we can also hear — if we listen carefully — the underlying rhythms of the fairytale. From mystery to romance, from high art to … Continue reading →

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Typical Weaknesses

Posted on July 24, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

Robert McKee is considered the master of movie storytelling. For more than 25 years, he’s given a wildly popular three-day intensive seminar around the world, from LA to Lisbon, and coached hundreds of aspiring and veteran screenwriters. His book, Story, … Continue reading →

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Old Wine

Posted on July 23, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

“All the world’s a stage.” William Shakespeare Amazing enterprises department: Shakespeare’s Globe is going, well, global! The London theater company recently announced that it’s taking Hamlet on the road. On many roads, in fact: It plans to perform the play … Continue reading →

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More Believable

Posted on July 22, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

Has this ever happened to you: Something that you’ve written seems to work in rough draft form, but once you go back and begin to fine-tune and revise, you find that it’s sticking out like a sore thumb and really … Continue reading →

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Good Vibrations

Posted on July 20, 2013 by karinwritesdangerously

Summer music: who can resist it? There’s something about these lighthearted songs that makes the world seem so much more sane and manageable! That’s why I was so happy to join Nancy, a great friend and one of my writing … Continue reading →

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