by Tom Hogan | Jan 3, 2023 | Writing, Book Coach, Screenplays, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching
In my previous novels, I’ve stuck pretty much to the maxim: write what you know. Readers who don’t know me might raise their eyes at this statement, since my three novels have been about sexual violence and prison life; genocide; and pedophilia. In my defense, I...
by Tom Hogan | Dec 6, 2022 | Screenplays, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching, The Forever Game, Writing
As promised, every two weeks (until I catch up to the work in progress), I’ll include a chapter, in sequence, of my novel-in-progress, The Forever Game. What follows is the opening chapter (remember, there were two different prologues, one for the script and one for...
by Tom Hogan | Oct 6, 2022 | Announcements, Screenplays, Teaching, Writing
I’m trying something a bit different with my fourth novel. In the first three I wrote either a complete novel or a complete screenplay, then, once it was out and making the rounds, I’d write its counterpart. Left for Alive was a novel for three years before I turned...
by Tom Hogan | Sep 1, 2022 | Writing, Personal, So You Want to Be a Writer, Teaching
For better or worse, with my previous three novels I’ve known the ending before I started writing. I appreciate those authors who say they just start writing and go where the characters take them. I’m not one of them. I know where the novel ends and usually where it...
by Tom Hogan | Feb 21, 2022 | Inspiration, Personal
(This is my last political blog for a while, but I want to address a few items that came up in the wake of my Bulwark Op-Ed and Lincoln Project interview. Then I’m on to promoting The Empty Confessional.) In the previous blog, I wrote disparagingly about those who...
