Tam visits Trin Carl's blog

Today I'm interviewing Tammy May.She writes dark psychological fiction about characters from the inside out. You can contact Tammy on facebook, twitter, pinterest.

Breathe through Writing

If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don’t write, because our culture has no use for it. Anaïs Nin

bad memory?

Never let a bad memory get in the way of a good memoir- Joanie Levenson

I Don't Care

"I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.”
—Roald Dahl, WD

I’m not a very good writer, but I’m an excellent rewriter.” — James A. Michener

Writer's tips

1.A reader should know which point of view you're in.  Paint a clear picture so we know

what's going on.

2.Present tense in novel writing is a bit unpopular.  Present tense is one more obstacle

to getting published.  Having the narrator in present tense can be hard in telling a story.

3.A character figuring out how to use things too early or quickly in a novel can be a pitfall. Make sure that you explain how a character figures out how they use specific gadgetry.

4. Giving a character a funny name can set the tone for your novel. Like a name like Bolleylocks can tell readers that the writing is going to be a bit funny and unrealistic and this particular character is going to be a jester in the novel.

5.Ring lardner wrote "Shut up," he complained. Even though shut up is not a complaint.

6. A good way to start and end a short story is have the same character open and close in the same train of thought

and setting.

7.Sometimes it frustrates readers (who are not writers) to have  a main character be a writer and the hero and to characterize writing as the greatest possible career.

8. There is a lot of tension from a writer as they ask themselves how do I get to the end of a story?  and them asking themselves how much time do I dwell on a particular scene?

9.If your writing a historical novel, it's easy to get off course with adding action and not historical information, to balance the action without history,

use a bit more psychological thinking of the character to allow readers to understand why you are inserting an extra action scene.

10.Don't make your dialogue merely information sharing, it needs to be interesting and add characterization.