Your Story Matters
I wrote this break down of how to find the real story of our novels in Writers Fun Zone. Check it out! New Class! How telling your Story Today can Change your Tomorrow. Sign up for the 8 class teachable course now. Contact me to participate in the 8 week interactive class via email starting…
How do you build a whole world? Lord of the Rings, Disc World, Game of Thrones, Handmaid’s Tale — These fantasy series are as much about their world as they are about the characters and story. Done right, the world itself becomes reason enough to read the book. That is why world building is important and daunting. Readers love…
We live in a time packed with irresistible time vampires who either sneak around at night and suck the life out of us, or glitter seductively in the sunlight and lure us away from our daily work. To write, both your story or your book, or your NaNoWriMo project, you must string together the garlic, make a…
For creatives and writers and some of us of a certain age, there are a couple of legitimate issues with Social Media. The first is our own internal timing. We aren’t fast enough. On Tuesday we figure out Facebook Live. By Thursday the platform has changed so completely we aren’t sure we’re in the right…
I have yet to meet a newbie writer who does not want be a published author, and in the same breath declares their book would make a very good film.
Where to Journal – an adventure I drag my journal everywhere. I like cafes, I like home, I like parks. Enough about me. Where do you like to journal? Where and when are important questions to ask and once discovered, important spaces to protect? If you don’t yet have the “perfect” journaling space, spend some…
I just finished reading Natalie Goldberg’s latest book Let the Whole Thundering World Come Home (released in June 2018). Loved it. I love all her books so this isn’t really a serious review because I’m a fangirl, I love Goldberg’s work, and I use her advice for both my teaching and my own writing. …
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