JE Thompson's Blog – March 2015 Archive (5)

     Novels are driven by incredible scene construction!

     How a writer handles scenes will make a difference between a manuscript that sells, and one that ends up in the slush pile or the author receiving a rejection letter via email or in the mail.

     A scene is a unit of drama in a novel.

     The concept of a scene in fiction comes from theater,…

What kind of writer are you…your writing style?

If you are sensitive to critics’ comments, the writing “Rules Police”, experts discussing this issue, with such aplomb that they intimidate, then you must turn a deaf ear to this shrill commentary that says: You must write in a certain style in order to be considered a worthy author.

Stop!

Your…

In 1995, a long, long time ago when Star Wars was the latest cinema rage, I started to pen my first novel called A Brownstone in Brooklyn. I wanted to write a novel and see could I actually put together a storyline that would interest readers…I wanted just one story published and see it in book form.

            Well, I worked long and hard with a few disturbing…

When I was a student at Bushwick High School in Brooklyn, New York, I would visit the local public library and stare at the books  and plays on the bookshelves.

             I daydreamed!

             I read the titles of  books by famous authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald ( The Great Gatsby) , William Golding  (Lord of the Flies) , Zora Neale…