Mary’s Blog

Hello! I am Mary De Gruttola and I am terribly pleased you are reading my blog.

Recently someone asked me why I chose blogging publicly instead of a diary. Well, the answer is simple. I want to share my journey as a writer. A diary is fine, but it is simply me to me. That’s a little boring, don’t you think? The journey itself started when I was a teenager, although I only started writing seriously a few years ago. I began by writing articles more for fun than anything else, until one day, the need to write a novel became so overwhelming that I just had to do it!

Here are some of the things I would like to include in my blog:

1. Articles on different aspects of writing a novel going from the general to the specific.
2. Character sketches i.e., how I met my characters? Oh yes! We all think we invent our characters, but the truth of the matter is —that we do not!  We ‘meet’ them.
3. I also would like to share my experience in doing long distance research. In fact, I have a free 8-chapter course on my website for you.
4. From time to time, I would like to review a novel or even a poem.
5. Eventually, maybe do an interview.
6. And, of course, if any of you have ideas, please feel free to share them.