by Tom Hogan | Sep 24, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer, Inspiration, Writing
The nice thing about shifting from writing a screenplay to writing a novel is the freedom that comes with it in terms of what you have to say/tell. You’re no longer struggling to keep it under 120 pages, the guideline offered to most new screenwriters (“Unless you’re...
by Tom Hogan | Sep 13, 2021 | Writing, Inspiration, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching
I’m asked every now and then about the genesis of The Devil’s Breath: was it a screenplay first or a novel? How did you get the core ideas? What made you think you could come up with a fresh take on a subject like the Holocaust? The idea for DB came to me on a...
by Tom Hogan | Sep 2, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer, Inspiration, Writing
Getting published signifies a number of things. It is the reward and recognition of months or years of hard work on the author’s part. It has the potential of being financial rewarding. And it gets the author’s work out into the public, where anything can happen—from...
by Tom Hogan | Aug 9, 2021 | Writing, Inspiration, So You Want to Be a Writer
I was talking with a friend last week, someone I’ve known since graduate school (Harvard, in case I haven’t mentioned it in the last 10 minutes). She had just gotten through the first draft of my newest novel, a suspense thriller with the backdrop of the Catholic...
by Tom Hogan | Aug 2, 2021 | Writing, Inspiration, So You Want to Be a Writer
I like to read. A lot. My mom got me going early and it just went from there. In my early reading days I lived in Europe and we did a lot of traveling. True story: we were going to visit the Vatican so she gave me The Agony and the Ecstasy (600+ pages) to read....
by Tom Hogan | Jul 14, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer, Inspiration, Writing
A series of coincidences leads to the experience of a lifetime. My first attempt at being a full-time writer came during graduate school. Though I was getting a Ph.D. in Biblical Archaeology, I was writing a novel on the side. Through an amazing set of...
