by SMThornton | Aug 29, 2011 | Uncategorized
The first sentence. The first chapter. These are hooks that must latch into your readers eyeballs and force them to keep reading. We know that. But guess what? You have to keep sprinkling little barbs through your prose to keep those pages turning. There’s still...
by SMThornton | Aug 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
This is the pile of notes that have accumulated on my bedside table since I’ve been back from my research trip. Can you tell I’m having a hard time sleeping lately? I feel like a mad scientist, jotting down random snippets of prose or plot ideas. I swear...
by SMThornton | Jul 12, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve been a neglectful blogger, and it’s about to get worse. But I wanted to pop in to say hi before I fall off the radar again. My summer so far: revising, playing at the park, baking, revising, working out, revising. And I ran my first 5K! 26 minutes, 20...
by SMThornton | Jun 20, 2011 | Uncategorized
Last week my daughter and I had a picnic on our back porch, one that almost made us late to her soccer game. On our way down the hill I thought, “Huh, I didn’t close the window. I should turn around and make sure the door was shut too.”Too late....
by SMThornton | Jun 14, 2011 | Uncategorized
The other day I was distracted researching ancient swearing and came across a nifty post on classical swearing which Gary Corby then blogged about.I’m having far too much fun with this, especially the Byzantine habit of stringing together obscenely long epithets...
