by Derek | May 31, 2020 | Reading, Reviews, Writing
Back when I was an aspiring writer, one thing would always puzzle me, and that thing was the oft-repeated phrase “Find your own voice.”“Understand character,” I got, as I did “Know the difference between story and plot,” but the own voice thing – especially because it...
by Derek | Oct 3, 2015 | Reading
Lawrence Block has been writing since God was in his heaven and Kennedy in the White House. That he’s had an esteemed career goes without saying. He’s written slight pulpy books (After the First Death), Bigger City-wide Blockbusters (the counterintuitively named Small...