P"Ain’t it the way?"So ended an email from a best-selling author who had just recounted an exotic plot twist she had come up with …
Reading Conference
Yesterday ended three days at the 40th Annual California Reading Association Conference.I presented as an author and a speaker. …
Cause and Effect/Beginnings
The first quarter of any writing project introduces the story's major characters, their goals, the setting, time period, themes, …
For the Scene Only
Watch your delivery of backstory ~ the story of what, in the past, made the character who they are today (in story time). Writers …