Music is so important to me in novels, especially in my own. I always write with songs in mind — either the song that would be playing in the movie soundtrack, or just a piece that highlights the mood of the moment. The Love of Her Lives was a great one to make a Spotify playlist… Continue reading The Love of Her Lives soundtrack
Tag: romance
The end of an ending
There’s an expression about writing craft that I’m sure most of you have heard: “Kill your darlings.” Well, it applies not just to characters whom you love but are superfluous to requirements, but also to plot elements, scenes, and much more. Including, it seems, endings. As I’ve written about before, endings are hard. Getting it… Continue reading The end of an ending