For the handful of you Winter sleigh riders still aboard … here's an update on my current stab at writing decent fiction - "Winter's Secret". I set an improbable task for myself. Good intentions, but you know what they say about paving that road.
I decided to model 'Secret' after four of my faves:
Robert B. Parker for his terse prose. Spenser.
Alexander McCall Smith for his philosophical musings. Isabel Dalhousie.
Ross Thomas for his storytelling. "Chinaman's Chance".
Robert Crais for his smartass detective. Elvis Cole.
Result? A conflicted mishmash of gibberish. And over 40,000 words deleted.
Action plan? Set the Unattainable Bar even higher:
Elmore Leonard - "Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip."
Good night and good luck.
Paige