For Make Believers — Road Maps

by Monice Mitchell Simms

I'm not a snob. Really. I'm not.

But when I first set out to write my debut novel, Address: House of Corrections, I purposely stayed away from — in fact, ran away from — reading books about writing books.

You see, I'm a screenwriter. And have been professionally for nearly 14 years. A movie fan and a student of the craft,  over the past twenty years, I have attended countless seminars and read dozens of books on screenwriting. I've pretty much perused them all. And ...