In Your Own Backyard
How do you write about a place you’ve never been to? How do you convey the distinctive feeling and atmosphere of somewhere unfamiliar?
A Grammar(ly) Dilemma
Sorry for missing my last blog post! Sometimes you need to take a breath and have a break; enjoy what’s around you. I had a wonderful mini-holiday [...]
Love Story
All great novels have something that makes them standout. Perhaps its a gripping plot, or a mesmerizing setting. But the one thing that runs through [...]
Motivation Mountain
This week, we’re talking motivation. I could dive right into a post about character motivations. But that’s not the motivation I’m talking about. This blog [...]
A Tale of Two Chapters
Two weeks. Two chapters. Two different characters. One character was a total nightmare. The other, an absolute dream. It’s a tale of two chapters. It [...]
A Decade of Reflection
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a restful holiday season, and found a way to welcome in the new decade in style. Can you [...]
Do You Feel what I Feel?
I have often wondered this: How attached are writers supposed to get to their characters? At the beginning of the writing process, when Sarah and [...]
A Little Something about Endings
This week, and the previous two, I have been working hard to finish The Price of Pandemonium. And by finish, I mean write the last [...]