A small confession to start things off: Plot is actually my strong point with writing. Ever since I first started writing, I’ve thought in terms of plot. My earliest stories were basically strings of sentences of “then this happened, and then this happened, and then this happened.” I’ve never had […]
Yearly Archives: 2014
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Today was another landmark day for me as a writer. I didn’t increase my sales rank on Amazon or reach my thousandth like on Facebook. What did happen was, to me, far more important in my progression as a writer. Today I met a young lady whom I was twenty years […]
What is story? At an early juncture in my writing journey, this question was answered with: “a story has a beginning, a middle, and an end.” Think about that for a minute. Beginning, middle, end. A life has a beginning, a middle, and an end; does that make it a story? […]
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 […]
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. […]