by Cindy Ervin Huff | Mar 30, 2021 | Writing Reflections, writing tips
My debut novel Secrets & Charades released in 2017, ten years after I wrote the first draft and completed a fiction writing course. I received 21 rejections as I pitched that book to 21 different publishers. Each time I’d rewrite and improve the content based on...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Jan 5, 2021 | Uncategorized, writing tips
My kind of planner I’m old school when it comes to calendars. Probably because I’m a list-maker, I find the more traditional calendar with large squares for each day works for me. I turn each daily task into a handwritten list I can check off then throw away. My...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 15, 2020 | Uncategorized, writing tips
Icebergs. I was thinking about icebergs this week. The movie Titanic came to my mind, dragging with it the factual research I did just because I love learning about real events. That and more flowed through my brain in a moment of time along with the metaphor for...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Sep 3, 2020 | writing tips
We’ve written our first book all by ourselves. The words materialized on the page. It’s a best-seller. So naïve. The publishers squash our dream of mega sales after multiple rejections. How is that possible? Could it be we know nothing about creative writing beyond...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Aug 27, 2020 | Uncategorized, writing tips
One of the hardest things at times to describe in a novel is the sense of taste and smell. They are probably the least mentioned for that very reason. We may say it was a delicious meal of roast, mashed potatoes, and green beans. Or the stench was overwhelming in the...
by Cindy Ervin Huff | Apr 21, 2020 | research, Uncategorized, writing tips
If you write any sort of historical fiction, delving into journals of the time period is essential. I love reading diaries. Not the ‘I have a secret crush’ teen diary but historical ones. As a writer, the insights I gain while reading personal diaries is a gold mine....
