February 13, 2009Musings Getting To Know You: Unstructured Character Interviews As many of you know, my background is in clinical psychology. After a brief stint doing therapy, I now occupy the paid […]
February 3, 2009Musings Commenter Courtesy I’ve been having one of those days. You know the ones where nothing goes right from the moment you get out of […]
January 26, 2009Musings Concentric Circles I’ve been a terribly unproductive girl today. Well not on everything. I had a class this morning that was an Introduction to […]
January 23, 2009Musings Between Two Worlds Since I began taking my writing seriously again–or perhaps for the first time really, as an adult–after graduate school, I’ve done a […]
January 11, 2009Musings I Was A Copy Editor In A Past Life I don’t mean that I literally had that job in the past in this present incarnation, but I have such a strong […]
January 4, 2009Musings The Story of the Middle I was zipping through my blglines today and came across this post by Jennifer Bianco about plotting out the middle. I often […]
January 2, 2009Musings Getting To Know You…Getting To Know All About You… Everybody’s got different ways of approaching character development and getting to know the characters of a new work in progress. Some people […]
December 23, 2008Musings Merry Christmas from PBW Well imagine my delight when I woke up this morning to discover I was one of the winners of a Bookwish from […]
December 21, 2008Musings Goal, Motivation & Conflict Well I just finished reading Debra Dixon’s Goal, Motivation & Conflict: The Building Blocks of Good Fiction. It’s not a long book […]
December 19, 2008Musings Book Squee The awesomeness of my crit partner cannot be overstated. Just sayin’. I came home early today (yay for last day of formal […]