by Robert Walker | Jan 9, 2023 | Blog, Writing Tips
by Robert W. Walker, author of Dead On Instinct In coming across an article in the AARP Magazine, I read of how one police department was hoping to solve more Cold Case files by rehiring retired police detectives to cover Cold Files; it caught my full attention and my...
by Robert Walker | Sep 5, 2022 | Writing Tips
by Robert W. Walker, author of Under the Dead Man’s Hat, Vampire Dreams & 80 other titles There are steps a young writer can take to improve the contours of a story overnight. There are skills that can be taught and understood in teachable moments about writing....
by Robert Walker | Aug 27, 2022 | News, Writing Tips
by Robert W. Walker Amid the clamor of writing, the sounds fill our heads—voices of characters, often clear, distinct and speaking in complete sentences or yelping in pain; then the clang of bells, the whisper of grasshoppers, the feel of a half-wild breeze and her...
by Robert Walker | Feb 20, 2022 | News, Writing Tips
There are –not a good way to open a story, THERE WERE or THERE ARE…just saying. These are not rules but rather what I have learned over a lifetime of writing: Never start your story describing a sunset or a moonglow or a stand of trees UNLESS there is a dangerous...
by Robert Walker | Jan 6, 2022 | Writing Tips
Martin Scorscese was awarded a special life’s work Golden Globe award for directing films, and his acceptance speech was a long eulogy to all those who came before him, all those he learned from and built upon. Ever watch a young artist at work? Go to any museum and...
by Robert Walker | Jan 1, 2022 | Book Announcements, Writing Tips
Fast Writing is Confident Writing Writers like any artists have spells when they wonder why bother, what am I doing this for, may’s well stop wasting my time, my energy on this ‘nonsense’ — creating fiction, a pack of lies to prove a truth, and...
