Tag: characters

• A Hemingway Feast

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Confession time:  I’ve never been a great fan of Ernest Hemingway’s writing. It leaves me cold. That’s not to say he isn’t a brilliant writer; I’m only saying his style of writing is not my favorite. I go more for Fitzgerald and Steinbeck. Nonetheless, I longed to read A Moveable Feast,…

  P. C. Zick

  January 17, 2013

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace, Writing Ideas

  authors, characters, Ernest Heminway, Ezra Pound, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fiction, Gertrude Stein, John Steinbeck, novels, Paris 1920s, writers, writing

• Two Male Authors and Their Books

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick Two books, two male authors, and two similar disillusioned looks at love kept me reading late into the night recently. I admit I read books written by women with intriguing female protagonists most of the time. It’s my preferred choice because I’m a female author who creates female protagonists in pursuit…

  P. C. Zick

  December 13, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Style and Grace

  authors, characters, Douglas Kennedy, Ernest Hemingway, fiction, Jeffrey Eugenides, Leaving the World, novels, The Bonfire of the Vanities, The Marriage Plot, Tom Wolfe, writers

• My Novel Christmas Party

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick I love Jae over at Lit and Scribbles. She always has inspiring posts such as her recent Novel Christmas Party. Today, I’m throwing a Novel Christmas Party for my novel Live from the Road. Question:  What Christmas carol best describes Live from the Road and why? Answer: Grandma Got Run over…

  P. C. Zick

  December 6, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  amazon.com, blog, characters, Christmas, Christmas carol, e-book, fiction, holidays, Kindle, Live from the Road, novel, writers, writing

• Editing – Smoothing the Cement

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick This past week, I finished the edits on my third or fourth draft of my new novel Trails in the Sand. I sent it off to my editor, Kathleen Heady, so she can weave her magic on the manuscript. When she returns it, I’ll go through her suggestions and then ready…

  P. C. Zick

  November 15, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas, Writing Tips

  authors, blog, characters, editing, editors, fiction, final draft, first draft, novel, point of view, publishing, rough draft, writers, writing

• A Second Look at the First Chapter

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick One of my fellow bloggers at eternal Domination  gave me this idea for a first “look” at my current work. His post Kool Challenge: Look Back at Look gave credit to the blog Read Tom Lucas for this idea. I decided to follow and do the same thing, and I hope…

  P. C. Zick

  October 31, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  authors, characters, Deepwater Horizon oil spill, environment, fiction, novel, sea turtle eggs, sea turtles, writers, writing

• All memory is fiction

  By Patricia Zick @PCZick When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people, not characters. A character is a caricature. -Ernest Hemingway I just finished reading The Paris Wife by Paula McLain, a fictional account of Hemingway’s first marriage to Hadley Richardson. They married before he’d published any of his novels, and she…

  P. C. Zick

  August 21, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer

  caricatures, characters, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald. autobiography, fiction, Gertrude Stein, memory, The Paris Wife, writers

• Book Clubs Find More Than Adventure Along The Mother Road

  Book Clubs Find More Than Adventure Along The Mother Road.

  P. C. Zick

  August 3, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Route 66

  characters, fiction, Live from the Road, Route 66

• An Appetite for Accuracy

  I just finished reading An Appetite for Murder: A Key West Food Critic Mystery. I rarely review other books because it’s such a subjective business, but I have to comment on this book. Signet published it in January 2012. The second in the series is scheduled for release in September 2012. The book is a…

  P. C. Zick

  August 1, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Tips

  amazon.com, authors, characters, editing, editors, fiction, Key West, novels, publishers, Signet

• Five-Star Review

  Diane Rapp is an author and book reviewer. She launched her latest book this week – Dragon Defense. Live from the Road – Five-Star Review by Diane Rapp When I began reading this book, I assumed it might be a travel story about the places visited. Thankfully the engaging story dragged me into the lives…

  P. C. Zick

  July 18, 2012

  Route 66

  amazon.com, characters, e-book, fiction, Kindle, Live from the Road, mother road, novel, Route 66, travel, writing

• Writing my life

  “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works” -Virginia Woolf This quote struck me this morning, and hits on something I’ve believed for a long time. As a writer, I’m often asked if a novel is autobiographical. It’s an annoying question…

  P. C. Zick

  July 5, 2012

  Ramblings of a Writer, Writing Ideas

  autobiography, characters, dialogue, fiction, novels, plot, story, Virginia Woolf, writers