Guest Post: Cody Kennedy Talks About Cadence in Writing and Jamie Fessenden’s Violated

Welcome back to Love Bytes! As most of you know, I’m an old-school author who believes writers write, readers read, and reviewers review. To wit, I don’t review books. But that self-imposed limitation doesn’t mean that I don’t support books Read more

Writing full time can be a killer, literally.

I recently joined the gym. Not only am I going three days a week but on the days in between I’m working out as well. Now some might say, Jo you’re not very big, why do you need to loose Read more

Sue Brown: Writing guru… Not

I’ve always wanted to be a writing guru. … waits patiently for you to stop choking on your coffee. Well, I wanted to be an author who’s there to help, pass on useful tips for newbie authors. By the way, Read more

I Know Something You Don’t Know

A piece of writing advice you see a lot is to do a character sketch, which is sometimes presented as a questionnaire. You’re meant to write down physical details (yes, do make an easily found note of which side the Read more

Writing a Good Read: Five Keys and a Pipe Wrench

Hi, Lou Sylvre here, once again grateful to Love Bytes for the opportunity to take blog readers on a brief and hopefully not scary trip through a corner of my brain. Usually, I aim these junkets at the readers of Read more

So, Henley… I have this Really Cool Story Idea…

I would estimate that ninety-five percent of the questions or comments that I get have to do with my writing process. Inevitably, those questions and comments tend to be prefixed or suffixed by some form of the title statement of Read more