February 15, 2009Musings 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 […]
February 14, 2009Musings 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 […]
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 9, 2009Musings 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. […]
February 6, 2009Musings 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 […]
February 5, 2009Musings Opposite Sex Character Attraction Among the writers I know (all of whom are women and write romance in some form or other), there are quite a […]
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 22, 2009Musings Progress! Considering that I felt pretty well brain dead and hormonal yesterday, I made an astonishing amount of progress. With Pot’s help, I […]