Showing posts with label Chris Well. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chris Well. Show all posts
Saturday, June 13, 2009
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Chris Well (Advice for Novelists, Part 39)
Today lend you ear to the advice of crime/mystery novelist Chris Well and his response to the question:"If you could say one thing to aspiring novelists, what would you say?"
Good fiction is not a product of writing -- it is a product of rewriting. Write your first draft in secret, set it aside, and come back later with fresh eyes. Go through and cut what isn't supposed to be there, add what you thought was already in there, and repair all the wonky transitions that made so much sense when you wrote it. Rinse. Repeat.
(Rule of thumb: If you have a target word count, make sure your first draft is a good ten- or twenty-percent above that count; as you go through and cut unnecessary words, your manuscript will shrink.)
--Chris Well, author of the novels Forgiving Solomon Long, Deliver Us From Evelyn & Tribulation House. Visit him online at his website here and his informative blog here.
--Chris Well, author of the novels Forgiving Solomon Long, Deliver Us From Evelyn & Tribulation House. Visit him online at his website here and his informative blog here.
Sunday, May 13, 2007
Tribulation House by Chris Well
Let me draw your attention to the release of Chris Well's third novel, Tribulation House. Book #3 in the unofficial Kansas City Blues series, Chris has created another quirky crime novel sure to win him many fans.Read the TitleTrakk.com review of the novel here by Narelle Mollet.
Read an interview I did with Chris a bit ago here.
Read my review of Chris' last book Deliver Us From Evelyn here.
Read the first chapter of Tribulation House here.
Visit Chris' website here.
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