Sable Lit Reviews

I’m on a temporary assignment where I work swing shift. I start work at the customary lunch hour which gives me time to get some freelance work done in the morning and again at night. However, you’d never quite anticipate the difficulty in deciding what to eat when you work the noon to eight shift. [...]

As writers, we take the slightest detail to make our character’s lives more authentic. I mentioned in the Details of Writing post how researching an element within your character’s home environment can tell the reader something about the character and his or her lifestyle.  In that instance we were talking about pools for stories set [...]

Sometimes the best way to capture the multiculturalism of your characters is to incorporate the food of the culture in your writing. If your character is Irish, you don’t have to go into the vast history of Ireland, you could just mention some uncommon Irish meal or dish as being a favorite of your character’s. [...]

When writing your stories in a given time period and setting it is important to consider the details of your story. For example, if you are writing a story based in the 1980’s, your characters probably didn’t listen to CDs or watch DVDs. Your readers will pick up on such errors. Again this makes research [...]