music sheets with handwritten lyrics

Should You? Using Song Lyrics in Fiction

Karin Kallmaker Craft of Writing

music sheets with handwritten lyrics

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Song lyrics, combined with music, have the power to move our booties, exorcise demons, uplift our spirit and add poetry into any moment of our daily lives. It’s a natural inclination to refer to, quote from and honor words of others that move us. Frequently, then, the question comes up: can I quote song lyrics in my story? Read More

women hugging in friendship

Society of Women

Karin Kallmaker Craft of Writing

I hope everyone will pardon a brief commercial for my absolutely most favorite lesbian event ever (okay, event with more than 2 women in the room) and that’s the Golden Crown Literary Society annual convention. This year it is in Atlanta, June 8-11, and already the list of attending writers, publishers and editors is lengthy and star-studded. And we’ve just been informed that Ann Bannon will be speaking! Read More

love spelled in scrabble tiles

Might I be so bold as to ask how much sex is enough?

Karin Kallmaker Craft of Writing

love spelled in scrabble tiles

Every genre has its conventions and the sex should always be about the characters and the plot. I think it is possible, even in these days of explicit romances, to pen a lesbian romance that does not have a “sex scene” per se – but it must have lust and passion or the reader won’t buy that “love and happy ever after” premise you spent several hundred pages selling. Read More