V. Yongewa Writes

I'm reading a book about cults, and it is a direct adaptation of a Parcast podcast on the subject. The plus side for the reader is that...

So... It turns out that the one book that I promised to do an interview for is not in the KDP select program. I read the contract, and I...

This is a small brag, but not a personal one: mystery series have cracked the meta. I realized this when I found the YouTube algorithm...

Someone At Work, by Rinzing Yongewa So, I sent a simple mystery, where a body is in a trash pit behind the inn, for editing. Simple line...

My Most Frequent Reaction to the Discovery of Other People I got a notification from KDP that the platform is about to give me a whole...

I want to start out with reassurance: Everything I am complaining about, or just observing, is said out of love. I don't hate 'tropes' or...

The Outliner Considering I've been giving some thought to the common complaint of pantsers that they cannot write an outline and then...

The local writing group held a flash fiction contest. That's kind of when you do what Kurt Vonnegut said of his aliens' fiction: catch a...

I got two anthologies from a library sale. They are both fifty to forty years old (like me,) so that gives an interesting range of short...

I've decided to track my new story by excel spreadsheet. Nanowrimo does have a lovely word counter, and I like to use it. I know there...