Daily Archives: December 14, 2009

Wow…

Good ideas are as hard to come across as affordable Ferrari parts. But after I posted it, I realized I kind of stumbled across one. That thing I wrote about a kid with seemingly incurable acne, but who finally finds something that starts to work, but with dark consequences? That’s pure gold, now that I …

December 14, 2009 – 3:48 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , | Comments (0)

Can the Midwest compel?

One of the big questions my mystery novel series is going to test is whether a series of mysteries set in the upper Midwest can be compelling to readers nationwide. I’ve set my characters in a fictional amalgam of my experiences living for nearly five years in northwest Wisconsin. You see, Stephen King made Maine …

December 14, 2009 – 3:45 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in writing | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Uniqueness is the key to memorable characters

Quite often, writers meet eccentric characters in real life but then hesitate to make their own characters quite so quirky. And yet it is the quirkiness in characters that makes them memorable. Nearly two decades have past since David Lynch’s Twin Peaks hit the airwaves, and I can still recall unique characters like the Log …

December 14, 2009 – 3:39 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in creativity | Tagged , , | Comments (0)

Late-night novel-writing musings

While I am still working on my mystery novel, my sermon and commentary writing has taken up more time than I had anticipated this past month or two. Certainly, I don’t mind the sacrifice of novel-writing time; my ministry work is more important to me, after all. Yet I do quite look forward to digging …

December 14, 2009 – 3:32 AM | By Craig Hansen | Posted in late night writing | Tagged , , , | Comments (0)