Allan Emerson is a Canadian writer who was born in Saskatchewan and brought up in small towns there and British Columbia. He lived in Australia and New Zealand before marrying and settling on the west coast of Canada. As his…
Yearly Archives: 2015
Interview with Allan Emerson
Tagged with: Allen Emerson, Death of a Bride and Groom, Honeymoon Falls, interview, murder mystery
Posted in Author Interviews
Posted in Author Interviews
The Familiar Ground of Self-Doubt
You don’t have to be a writer to relate to doubt. It’s one of the reasons I like this photo. Imagine what the guy/gal went through who pushed this project through. You want to build a what? Why would you…
Author Interview with Kate Morgan
Who’s your favorite character you’ve written so far and why? The Redeemers. They’re so delightfully batshit evil. Plus they know for certain that they’re the instruments of perfect good. I’m surprised their brains don’t implode like the old Star…
Trying to Pick and Choose
I’ve spent the past year trying to learn what to do to become a real, no-kidding professional writer. I started with learning about queries. They were like the gateway drug to this whole process. My first query took forever. Okay,…
Twitter–One Line Wednesday
I love one line Wednesday: #1lineWed. It’s become the highlight of my Twitter week. Kiss of Death chooses the theme (@RWAKissofDeath). Every week there’s a new pinned tweet at the top of her Twitter feed. Sometimes it’s an idea, like…
Tagged with: 1lineWed, Cathleen Townsend, guidelines, One line Wednesday, theme, tweet, Twitter
Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Posted in Social Media, Twitter
Dogs
Dogs are truly amazing. My favorites have always been collies, although it must be admitted that they’re no good when it comes to chasing deer away. I was incredibly frustrated several years back, because I had not one, but two…
Hunted
I spun my horse; the damned hounds had finally caught me. The horse was stolen, which would be enough by itself to draw the hangman’s noose around my neck. My eyes searched the circle of mounted men who surrounded me,…
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Backstory Is Not Story
That might work in a cartoon, but you just can’t start your story with backstory. It seems like such a pity. The easiest solution is to start at the beginning and when we get to the end, stop. And y’know,…
Tagged with: backstory, beta readers, Cathleen Townsend, character, description, exposition, name soup
Posted in Writing
Posted in Writing
Cathleen Townsend 