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E is for Editing

  Oh, Editing, how I love to loathe you! No matter how much I may love a particular passage when I’m done writing it the first time, so often I feel like Phil Robertson from Duck Dynasty, taking a sharp knife to a catfish when it comes to editing. A crunching hack here, a slimy [...]

D is for Dudes

Ask my Critique Partners and they’ll tell you, every single time I try to write from a girl’s point of view, she always comes off “annoying” – which I think is their way of nicely telling me my chicks are whiny bitches. For some reason, though, my guys are freaking awesome, but as I recently [...]

C is for Conflict

  I think I was in the 9th grade the first time I heard about the different types of literary conflict: Man vs. Man, Man vs. Nature, and Man vs. Himself. (It might’ve been before that, but I specifically remember Coach Egan talking about it, because it was one of the more interesting things that [...]

B is for Books

My husband is not a reader, bless his heart. He doesn’t understand how I can pick up a book and finish it in a day, but when a book captures my imagination and refuses to let go until the very end, it’s really not that hard to do. In fact, now, looking back on it, [...]

A is for Actors, Artists, and Authors

I used to joke that I came from a long line of teachers and preachers. Take a look at my family tree and you’ll notice pretty quick that my parents, grandparents, and at least one great-grandparent stood before an assembled group at some point in their lives and spoke of History, Home Economics, or the [...]

Go to Unicorn!

If you follow me at all on Facebook, then you know how excited I was to go back to the Unicorn Writer’s Conference this past Saturday. It was my second time to attend the conference, and once again I learned … Continue reading →

Into the Deep End, Chapter 1

Yesterday I registered for the Unicorn Writer’s Conference in Portland, CT on March 9. I know it’s going to an amazing conference, I know I’m going to meet a lot of wonderful writers, and I know I’m going to learn … Continue reading →

Make It Sing – Part 5

If you’ve been reading along with me, you know that I’ve covered Who, What, Where, and Why, and for the last part of this series, I want to tackle How? I say tackle, because to me this is the hardest … Continue reading →

Make It Sing – Part 4

So far we’ve discussed in our little series Who, What, and Where, now I’d like to talk about Why? I recently read an early draft of a writer-friend of mine that had a lot of potential, but was missing something … Continue reading →

Make It Sing – Part 3

Okay so I’ve been really lax on posting since the holidays, I know. And if not posting to one’s blog is one of those seven deadly sins, then I suppose I’ll take whatever punishment I must, but in the meantime, … Continue reading →