Peng Shepherd On Writing A Choose-You-Own-Adventure Speculative Mystery
THE AUTHOR Having just survived writing a speculative mystery novel that allows readers choose what happens at certain points in the story, when CrimReads asked me to write an essay about the experience in the same format, I felt: Terror Excitement * TERROR It’s already hard enough to write a book. But to write one […]
3 Ways to Improve Your Summer Writing Practice
SrdjanPav/E+/Getty Images I began the summer after my first year as an assistant professor having written almost nothing. As the constraints of the semester fell away, a wide expanse of time stretched before me to catch up on everything I hadn’t done in the past months. To get started, I wrote down all the projects […]