by Zoe M. McCarthy | Nov 19, 2015 | Writing
“If you can take a little slice of the world and a little piece of dirt and really focus on details, you can drive large, seemingly spectacular movements.” —David Baldacci (Writer’s Digest November/December 2015)Note the quote from David Baldacci above....
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 29, 2015 | Writing
“It’s hard to see a middle ground between marking up your book line by line and doing a complete rewrite. It’s also hard to know what to fix in revision, and even harder to know when that process is finished.” —Gabriela Pereira In the September...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Oct 23, 2014 | Writing
“You can’t relate to a superhero, to a superman, but you can identify with a real man who in times of crisis draws forth some extraordinary quality from within himself and triumphs but only after a struggle.” — Timothy Dalton Recently, I read about people...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Mar 27, 2014 | Writing
“There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them – the senses, intelligent companions, and books.” — Henry Ward Beecher. Do your hero and heroine seldom smell scents, taste flavors, hear sounds, see settings, or touch people and things? If so, you...
by Zoe M. McCarthy | Mar 20, 2014 | Writing
“There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.” — Ursula K. LeGuin Have you wondered why in the past few years many movies have received critics’ Rotten Tomatoes ratings of less than 30%? I’ve...