Getting To Know You, Part 3: Structured Character Interviews
I’ve had a lot of fun writing out these posts. I love, love, love doing character interviews and playing therapists to recalcitrant […]
Tag: Personal
Getting To Know You, Part 2: Semi-Structured Character Interviews
Yesterday I talked about the value of unstructured character interviews. Today I want to move on to semi-structured character interviews. A semi-structured […]
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 […]
Unplugged From Reality
Hows that for a dark, depressing image? This is what keeping up with news and current events does to my creative mind. […]
Fess Up Friday
Well things have finally started to settle into a rhythm in all of my classes. Most of my students now have a […]
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 […]
The Great Ebook Debate
Everybody’s talking about ebooks. It’s been a topic that’s come up with more frequency over the last year given the much debated […]
Progress
Today was the annual retreat for the Evil Day Job. This meant essentially a 6 or 7 hour staff meeting at an […]
Everyday Curiosities
As a writer, I tend to look at things in life a little bit differently than “normal” people. Strange occurrances that other […]
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 […]