~ The Borrowed Book ~

Is there anything more painful for an author than to hit the ‘Delete’ button?  We’ve given life to our characters, created scenes that we k...

Today we have a treat: one of our own Borrowed Book bloggers, Sandra (who writes as S. Dionne Moore) comes out from behind the curtain to ...

My book on character development, Character: The Heart of the Novel , was published by Oak Tree Press in 2013. The main theme of the book...

“How do you manage to do both?” I hear this question all the time!  You see, I am an author.  I am also a marketing professional.  ...

It’s sharp. It cuts, and a good writer will learn the value of using it with abandon. By wielding the  cutting  edge of your editing scalp...

Robert Louis Stevenson said, “There is but one art, to omit.” He obviously appreciated the power of polish. I call polishing powerful, beca...

I thought I’d talk to you today about “taking care of the writer.”  We talk a lot about formatting, scene and sequence, characterization,...

Something that writers need to figure out in every book is setting. We need to make it unique, yet familiar, and many authors struggle wi...

I hate to burst your bubble, but writers aren’t wizards. They’re everyday Joe Shmoes who simply have a little velvet bag of writerly trick...