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Crazy in love with Japanese anemones 24 Aug 2013 | 06:45 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on August 20, 2009.) I wonder why Ogden Nash never wrote a poem about Japanese anemones? The words roll trippingly off the tongue and suggest a...
This is your brain on writing 20 Aug 2013 | 06:04 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on January 30, 2007.) I've been writing all morning, and just now I decided to break for "elevenses," as my British friends call it. I made a l...
Writing with my eyes open 16 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on May 23, 2008.) How many other novelists, I wonder, avoid looking at their words as they type them onto the page? I'm actually a fairly fast ...
Is there a recipe for writing romance? 14 Aug 2013 | 05:17 pm
Most published romance writers are pretty quick to deny it when anyone dares to suggest that category (or "series") romance novels are written to a formula. But I insist that there is indeed a recipe ...
Want to write better dialogue? 12 Aug 2013 | 06:30 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on June 23, 2011.) I just happened upon this over at Jon Winokur's Advice to Writers: 1. Dialogue should be brief. 2. It should add to the re...
Please don't tell me how to write 9 Aug 2013 | 07:02 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on August 11, 2008.) One of the writers' e-mail loops I used to follow closely has become such an annoyance that in the past couple of weeks I'...
On happy endings 7 Aug 2013 | 06:32 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on May 10, 2008.) One of the great things about reading and writing romance novels is knowing that no matter what goes wrong in the story world...
The swirl and swing of words: Writing beautiful sentences 5 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on December 21, 2010.) Last night I read a book review complaining that a certain romance novel tried a reader's patience because the sentences...
Life lessons from the garden 1 Aug 2013 | 05:30 pm
Life lessons from the garden (This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on August 15, 2008.) Sometimes even our strongest friends need a little propping-up. (David Austin's "Evelyn" ros...
Writing lesson from Snow Patrol: tease and smash 30 Jul 2013 | 06:00 pm
(This "golden oldie" NRJW post was originally published on June 12, 2006.) Posted by Brenda Coulter at No rules. Just write. Over the weekend I downloaded a couple of Snow Patrol CDs for my iPod. I ...
