“A story has no beginning or end; arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.” — Graham Greene, “The End of the Affair” “Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well.” […]
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December 21, 2012By Mary Hutchings ReedIf you’re a lawyer, you’ve honed the skill of interviewing clients and deposing witnesses. You know how to ask the same question a dozen different ways to clarify an answer, and you know how to ask a leading question, even if the objection will be sustained. But do […]
The Chicago Daily Law Bulletin’s first page had this picture of me (in pink) moderating the CBA’s Alliance for Women’s Author’s panel in November.
Write what you know,” is one of the most common pieces of advice given to new writers, but not one that should be taken too literally, at least not in a factual sense. I don’t know a lot more than I do know, and if in order to write a novel I […]
IOctober 19, 2012 f you’ve been with us since April and been diligent about your writing on a daily basis, there is a good chance that you have at least 80 pages by now. Isn’t that remarkable? Yes, it is! You may deserve a break today, but I’m here to caution you not to take […]
Have a new date for the publication of “Warming Up” by She Writes Press, now set for March 1, 2013. This gives me some additional time to make a plan for promotion of this, my second novel to reach print. Promotion is essential to publication, because publication by itself is an empty reward. Without distribution and […]
Saw SVU Special Victims last night–a story about a young woman who was the named author of a work along the lines of 50 Shades. A talk show host rapes her two nights in a row, acting out the fantasies in the author’s book, which was the host’s “defense” as well as the prosecutor’s insight […]
September 21, 2012 By Mary Hutchings Reed We talked in July about letting a scene build gradually in order to give the reader the experience of being there, and in August we talked about finding words. Today, I’d like to write about the sentences that hold those words and how to write a sentence in […]
