April 1, 2015Craft Teaching What I Love: Novellas A Favorite Format I love novellas. Like, seriously, I love them. I […]
March 24, 2014Craft Hurray For Magical Cookies! Last week I was doing some tweaking to my outline. This often […]
June 6, 2013Craft Thoughts on Gaining Reader Empathy A month or two ago, I picked up The Hero’s 2 Journeys […]
June 3, 2013Craft Monday Meanderings And Thoughts on Strong Female Characters This morning’s lifetrack, Follow the Flower from Under the Tuscan Sun. Because it’s […]
April 30, 2013Craft The Danger of Making A Villain TOO Smart…Lessons from Bones Okay first, I have to share the link to the FUNNIEST post […]
February 28, 2013Craft What Makes You STOP Reading An Otherwise Good Book? I gave up on Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan this morning. This isn’t the first […]
February 26, 2013October 8, 2015Craft A New Perspective on Lit Analysis I’m thinking about analysis this morning–literature analysis, as it happens. This all […]
February 15, 2013Craft Creating Sympathetic Characters: A Lesson From Lost Girl I think I mentioned last week that one of the reasons that […]
February 1, 2013Craft What’s Your Short Story Advice? I find myself thinking about short stories lately. I have thought since […]
November 27, 2012Craft Finding Your Voice No, I don’t mean your singing voice, although, hey, it’s the holidays–if […]