Anne R. Allen's Blog... with Ruth Harris
Writing about writing. Mostly.
By Melodie Campbell Many of you know that in addition to being a writer of mob heist novels, I’m also the past Executive Director of Crime Writers of Canada. (For my sins. Of which I’ve lost count…) I’m just coming up for air after serving as a judge for the Crime Writers of Canada Awards […]
By Melodie Campbell Yes, I’m at that point. The chaos point. Writing to a specific word count, three-quarters written, and my twentieth novel is an unqualified mess. If you are a veteran writer like me, you say it’s not going to happen this time. But it does. EVERY FREAKING TIME. Here’s why: THE LINEAR APPROACH […]
By Melodie Campbell. I’m not talking about a room of your own, with all due respect to Virginia Wolf. (Although that is certainly handy. Writing your early stories on the floor of the bathroom with your kids outside shaking the locked door gets tiresome pretty fast.) But today I’m talking about what I tell the […]
