When I started learning how to write, one word came up over and over again: voice. For years, I heard that word, was vaguely terrified by it, ignored it and kept writing. I didn’t really understand what it meant or what all the fuss was about. I just knew that […]
Monthly Archives: June 2014
21 posts
When I first started writing, my drafts would often read like this: Paragraph of description–> followed by paragraph of action–> more description–> block of dialog–> paragraph of backstory or exposition–> etc. As readers, we know instinctually that there is something wrong with this pattern. When we read our favorite books, […]
I’ve been invited to participate in the Writing Process Blog Tour. This traveling tour occurs every Monday on multiple blogs and is an opportunity for writers to share a little about what, how, and why they write. Since I’m pretty much always blathering on about my writing process, participating in this blog hop was a no-brainer. […]