Purple Prose: The Tackiest Pants Patch
Sitting around with a group of writing students a while back, the concept of purple prose […]
How Altering a Character Leads to Different Character Interactions
You have to be careful when giving a character a super-steep arc. I learned that the […]
Vacations and the Writing Process
Just got back from ten days in California, plus a follow-up beach weekend – all (as […]
Free Chocolate Coming Next Year
The secret is out! Free Chocolate will be coming next summer from Angry Robot Books. https://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/sci-fi-fantasy/interstellar-chocolate-war-announcing-free-chocolate-amber-royer/ […]
Hemingway’s Iceberg
One thing I see students doing repeatedly is over-worldbuilding. They get the idea that to make […]
Are You in Omniscient POV? Or are You Head-Hopping?
So at tonight’s SNW, one of the questions that came up was on the difference between […]
Using Pinterest to Improve Your Writing
I’ll admit it. I am a Pinterest addict, heading rapidly towards 10,000 pins. I make some […]
Outlining and Road Trips
We went on a mini-road trip over the weekend, and that got me thinking about journeys, […]
Character Development and Development as a Writer
On Friday, we had a meeting with the new/returning Work Study Employees for the kids/teen camps. […]
Physical Description
So I thought I’d kick this off with a few of my favorite things. Bicycling into […]