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 | Sep 27, 2022 | Announcements, Teaching, Writing
In my particular case, there are two ways to look at the decision to hire a coach to help in my fiction writing. The first is simple: if it’s such a good idea, why didn’t you do it from the start? The answer to that one is equally simple: hubris. I’d been...
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 | Nov 1, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer, Writing
NOTE: This is the first of a 3-part blog series about the writers’ maxim: Write what you know. Each blog focuses on one of my novels and the experiences that hopefully enriched and informed them. Below is the first one. Left for Alive: This novel’s...
by Tom Hogan | Oct 5, 2021 | So You Want to Be a Writer, Writing
My second novel, The Devil’s Breath, was published August 30. Since then I’ve split my time between working on my third novel, The Confessional (another happy Tom Hogan novel), this one about pedophilia within the Catholic church, and promoting the book. Here’s the...
