Latest Posts ? dsaman

The Author Talk—Different Messages for Different Groups

I’m speaking this Sunday at a Sisters in Crime meeting in High Point, North Carolina from 2-4. I’m looking forward to the talk because I’...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

Progressive Dinner Deadly , Twitterific

Twitterific

Below are the writing-related links I tweeted last week. The Writer’s Knowledge Base search engine, designed by software engineer and ...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

One Reason to Know Our Characters Well

There’s a festival of music, rides, art, and food that Matthews, North Carolina, is regionally known for. It’s always on Labor Day weekend...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

avoiding profanity in books , clean mysteries , taking readers into account

Revisiting Profanity

I always take emails that I get from readers very, very seriously. Actually, I listen to them just as much as I do to my editors. And I ...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

ambiguous characters , Monster , narrative distance , Walter Dean Myers

Keeping Distance Between a Protagonist and a Reader

I just finished reading a book for my book club: Monster by Walter Dean Myers. The 16 year old protagonist, Steve, is on trial for mur...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

approaches for learning something new

Learning Something New? A Few Tips

I’ve always heard that it’s important to learn something new every day. But lately, I feel like I’ve been learning fifty new things a day,...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

talking while writing and editing

Writing to Read Aloud

I frequently hear about the quiet life of writing and wonder if I’m just the weird writer in the group. Writing, for me, isn’t really a qu...

Okedeh 6 Jun, 2021

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