Animals in fiction

Bill Smoot2022-09-26T19:01:45+00:00

When someone observed that animals are frequent in my fiction, I realized it’s true. Asked why, I couldn’t give a reason. The animals in my work are no more planned than a fawn stepping from the trees or a hawk soaring across the sky with a snake in its talons. Welcome...

Where do ideas come from?

Bill Smoot2022-09-24T05:47:06+00:00

The questions I’m most frequently asked as a writer are these: Were do you get your ideas?  How do you decide what to write? For me, stories—whether long (a novel) or short (a short story)—begin with a seed. The seed can be a scene, a character, or a place. I suspect this...