Every scene requires change, and every change must be incited by something that flows from the previous scene. If your character is just coasting along on the momentum of a previous inciting incident, it’s not a new scene, it’s just a scene that needs some cutting.
Like most novelists, I just wanted to write. Not market myself.
There are a LOT of book people in Portland. Writers, editors, small publishers, bookdealers, librarians…and readers. Readers galore. That’s why Portlanders pack the house to capacity every year for the Portland Book Festival (formerly, and better, known as Wordstock). This year, my friends Sue Campbell and Rachelle Ramirez and I got together, bought an exhibitor …
