Max Griffin, author of Tricks and Treats, Flatland, Lindermont Lovers and more, has written an indepth and invaluable blog about how to create a stunning opening scene that really works. You can read the introduction below – and the rest on his blog. “Some of the greatest literature of the nineteenth century used an omniscient [...]
READ MORE »by Max Griffin What kind of characters do you like to read about? One of the author discussion groups to which I belong recently asked the inverse question: what kind of characters do we, as authors, like to write about? The other authors all gave really good, if somewhat different, answers to this question. Everyone [...]
READ MORE »An Homage to Alfred Hitchcock The Anticipation of Suspense By Max Griffin I love films. There is something about sitting in the dark and losing yourself in the panorama unfolding on the big screen. There is a totality to the cinematic experience that engages the senses in ways that the stage and prose cannot. The [...]
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