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September 23, 2017
Writing Sound
Human beings possess five natural senses. Writers work hard to use words to stimulate those senses. It’s easy for certain senses like sight and taste, much harder for touch, hearing and smell. We have words that mimic sound, for example, … Continue reading →
September 16, 2017
How do you write until you’re done?
Lately, I’ve been writing short stories to exercise my writing muscles in preparation for work on the second Perceval novel. Narrative structure has taken over my life. It’s so important for grounding a story, for keeping the action moving, and … Continue reading →
September 10, 2017
The Structure Game
A story is a story is a story. The medium tends to make no difference when looking at narrative structure. I often find myself noting plot points that signal the progress of the story’s structure when I’m reading a novel … Continue reading →
September 3, 2017
Grammar Matters
This morning, I began reading the October 2017 issue of The Writer. October already! One of the articles concerned the verb to be and how it weakens prose. Have you ever gone through a piece of writing specifically to root … Continue reading →
August 27, 2017
Writing Update
To be honest, I was thinking of skipping writing a post here this week in order to work more on “Aanora” today, but then I decided to write a short update on where I am with all my writing now … Continue reading →
August 20, 2017
Top Ten Posts of All Time on Anatomy of Perceval
Recently, WordPress sent me a happy anniversary e-mail, reminding me that I’ve been a member of WordPress for ten years. Ten years!! How time flies, eh? I remember that I joined WordPress with a great deal of trepidation. I had … Continue reading →
August 13, 2017
Figuring out the questions
Every writer’s creative process differs from every other writer’s. It took me a long time to understand mine, to leave it alone, and let it do its thing. For the past two weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about Aanora, … Continue reading →
August 5, 2017
How do you choose books to buy?
“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” — Winston Churchill In another word, perseverance. Success and what it means has been in the back of my mind this week. Sam Shepard … Continue reading →
July 30, 2017
She Has a Name
Creative thinking flows in and out, between thoughts, and feeds more creative thinking. I realized about halfway through this past week that the new character I wrote about last weekend had emerged from an idea that I’d incorporated in the …
July 23, 2017
Character: The First Appearance
Yesterday, I had a great afternoon of writing fiction! All the pent up creative energy flowed out onto the page and my imagination just played, and played, and played. The result: a finished first draft of a story that had … Continue reading →
