Filing Off The Serial Numbers.... My Journey To Publication, Part 2

Filing Off the Serial Numbers....

The next step was to put everything I'd learned to use in writing original fiction. I wrote a novel. It started out being a take-off on romantic suspense novels--what used to be called "Gothics"--with deliberately stereotyped characters and situations. As I wrote, though, I got interested in the characters and they started to develop. I got interested in the plot, and it started to take its own twists and turns. I got interested in writing the dialog, and the ...