I’m taking a break from retelling my Libya adventures for tonight. I’ll get back to it, but this weekend my thoughts have been about characters, and how the stories we write need to catch them in the act of living their lives. In a previous post, I wrote about listening to the point of view character’s voice, and using that to color your prose. A teenage girl will observe and […]
I intend and very much hope to be a great writer–someone who writes compelling fiction with interesting characters and situations. But this post is about daring to be good enough for a first draft. Here’s why… Years ago, I read an inspiring book called, Dare To Be A Great Writer, by Leonard Bishop. It gave 329 ways a writer could become a great writer. Being a perfectionist who likes to […]
I have never professed nor aspired to be a bibliophile. That’s the husband’s avocation, as our library will attest to. Except for a period of time where my only reading materials outside of school was Reader’s Digest Condensed Books and with a few notable exceptions, I have always been a modern fiction reader. I blame it on school’s incessant need to dissect and eke a learning experience out of anything. […]
I was going to go to bed early tonight, but the writing bug hit and I couldn’t let inspiration pass. Whether the inspiration was good or bad remains to be seen–it’s good enough to call it a rough draft and move on to the next scene. What I’m not sure of, is how well the ending works. Here’s the tail end of a confrontation. The heroine is exhausted, drained, dizzy, […]
I have been working on my novel for the better part of two years, while holding down a challenging full-time day job. A lot of writers have done it or are still doing it. I’m no different from them. This is the reality I live in. What it means, however, is that if I want to write, I have to do it in the evenings, when most people are settled […]
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