The Blog of Donald White

All good stories have an element of mystery. If everything is obvious, then the writing is dull. Readers delight in surprises. Especially cl...

I told a friend recently the secret to writing a good review is to FOCUS on what you like, MENTION what you don't and not SPOIL the endi...

Ideas come in all shapes and sizes. Some are simple and easier to manage. Others are grand and ambitious, sucking up every last bit of energ...

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and sometimes it takes that many to describe what the reader should see. Description is always...

Sometimes a story does not want to cooperate. It becomes longer than you intended, or perhaps it is shorter. A character moves the work in a...

In celebration of my 40th birthday, a poem that I wrote a few years ago on the subject: Birthday Hark, friends and countrymen       ...

In my experience, the story decides how long it will be. I like mine to be lean and mean, so I do not write anything unless it has a definit...