Connie InglisJan 24, 20212 minANOTHER FAMOUS FIRST LINE"All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." Thus begins Leo Tolstoy's novel, Anna Karenina (transl....
Connie InglisJan 15, 20211 min"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times..."A novel's opening line. I've never been happy with mine. And so I've been reworking the opening scene to make it better. How do I improve...
Connie InglisDec 8, 20201 minA Novel is BornThat fall, in a fiction-writing course, I wrote the first five chapters of a novel.
Connie InglisMay 12, 20202 minNewbie NovellingSnippets of life as a novelist working toward publishing my first novel. I have been working on a novel titled Rewriting Adam for the...
