Category: Writing Fiction

Review of Long Ago And Far Away

Long Ago and Far Away by John Coyne, an ambitious novel spanning time and place, connects the disparate worlds of Parker Bishop, a former CIA agent who retreated to safety and anonymity as a proprietor of a second hand book store in Westchester County, New York — thus masking his undercover past with respectability that included

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My Next Novel–Long Ago and Far Away

This novel is short, just 90,000 words. However, the story spans thirty-five years, and it is played out on three continents and in seven cities. One of the locales is Menorca, Spain. The plot can be best summed up by this quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes: The life of an individual is in many respects

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Your Novel Needs A Structure & You Need A Structure

The hardest part about writing a novel is writing a novel. Now that’s a declarative sentence! But it is so true. To write a novel you need a structure. A beginning, middle, and end. You need characters. Plot. Scenes. Most importantly, you need a spine the length of the book on which you can hang

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Excerpt from The Caddie Who Won The Masters

A player never wins the Masters on his own, as those of us who follow golf know well enough. But in all honesty, when I look back at my week in Georgia, I don’t know which one of those golfing legends helped me the most. Of course, my caddie played a part—that young kid who

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