Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story.

A story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn’t spin a bit of magic, it’s missing something.

Trust your reader. Not everything needs to be explained. If you really know something, and breathe life into it, they’ll know it too.

Editing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more.

Occasionally I looked at Bea to see if she was running over those events like I was, the sound effects living their own life behind her eyes, but she gave nothing away.

Believe in the reader and they can connect the dots, if you succeed breathe life into the story

Find your best time of the day for writing and write. Don’t let anything else interfere. Afterwards it won’t matter to you that the kitchen is a mess.