In 1949 when I was twenty-one years old I took a creative writing course at the New School in Manhattan given by Professor Don M. Wolfe. He had been my freshman English teacher at New York University, where I graduated in 1947, just two months shy of my twentieth...
Every serious novelist worth their salt believes in their soul that they have written a brilliant novel or multiple novels in which the reader will find compelling characters engaged in deeply imagined stories that profoundly illustrate the human condition. What every...
A Writer on How Memory Is His Greatest Asset I have been asked repeatedly how one can avoid the memory blocks that so often plague older people. As a novelist in my 87th year, I can attest that memory is the key to writing. Everything that happens in the life of a...
Reprinted with Permission, June 1, 2015 You’ve spent months, perhaps years, composing your novel. You’ve read and reread it hundreds of times. You’ve rethought it, rewritten it, and revised it, changed characters, dialogue and plot lines. Writing your novel is the...
Hernany Perla, who recently sold the blacklist script BLINK to Atlast Independent along with Revelations to Lotus Entertainment, has signed on as screenwriter to adapt the forthcoming Fall 2015 hostage-suspense novel TORTURE MAN by bestselling author Warren Adler....
Guest Column by Warren Adler, Reprinted with Permission May 1, 2015 Like every author on the planet, I've spent endless hours mulling over creating titles for my work. One strives, of course, to be both memorable and honestly descriptive of the content....
Guest Column by Warren Adler, Reprinted with Permission February 2015 For writers of the imagination, what we fear the most is a disruption, a blockage, a sudden dam that changes the course of the river of creativity. Back in the late sixties and early seventies when...
