They say that when one door closes, another door opens (or something like that), and this month, we were doing precisely that in our Furious Fiction challenge! Here were this month’s prompts: Your story must begin with a door/doors opening. Your story must include a character who looks the other
Whitney Fitzsimmons’ thriller The Rising has been published by Ventura Press. Whitney is a graduate of our Crime and Thriller Writing course, which she credits with giving her the structure she’d been missing every time she’d tried to finish a novel before. “The course gave me a solid foundation in
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