January 6, 2009Musings Progress Today was the annual retreat for the Evil Day Job. This meant essentially a 6 or 7 hour staff meeting at an […]
January 5, 2009Musings Getting Back In The Groove I had this really great post all about the origins of paranormal species in fiction and how to set yourself apart from […]
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 3, 2009Musings Everyday Curiosities As a writer, I tend to look at things in life a little bit differently than “normal” people. Strange occurrances that other […]
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 […]
January 1, 2009Musings 2009 Goals Well it’s here. 2009. 2008 went out with barely a whimper rather than a bang. Which is fine, really, as it wasn’t […]
December 27, 2008Musings Post-Christmas Prep for 2009 At long last we are, I think, free of family obligations. Everyone has left town, save one uncle who isn’t our responsibility. […]
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 […]