It’s been a whirlwind fall, which is my best pathetic excuse for the lack of posts. Okay, here’s a better one: NaNoWriMo. I’ve ‘won’ NaNo before – completing 50k words in thirty short days with the
Category: Writing Fiction
Writing fiction for adults, teens and kids. Topics include the building blocks of plot, character and setting. Next, tips on drafting, revision and editing. Also includes in-depth looks at verse novels, mysteries, and contemporary fiction.
A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” replied the universe, “The fact has not created in me “A sense of obligation.”
What is it about small towns and dark emotions? Having grown up quite happily in a small town, it never ceases to amaze me how places where there are more farm acres than cows accrue so
SATURDAY, October 14, 2017 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Second Saturdays Writing Program at Woodinville Library 17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville Author (Pyromantic; Hold Me Closer, Necromancer; Firebug) and bookseller LISH McBRIDE returns to the Second
I can hardly believe everyone is back at school and work and, through the horrible haze of the wildfire smoke-clouded air, I can see the faintest glimmer of that beloved dream: A Fall Routine. I have
This spring, feeling the repetitive wear of two-decades of freelance work and novel-writing from my kitchen, I went back to “work” — the kind where you drive to an office, wear a corporate ID badge and
I’ve been struggling a bit with the manuscript lately. And I don’t think it’s just because life has been busy. I think, at the core, my problem is that I’m tackling something bigger–darker–than I ever have
Just when I begin to worry that the pounding rain on my Pacific Northwest roof may drive me mad, the Academy of American Poets sweeps in to soothe my spirit with National Poetry Month. It’s a
SATURDAY, April 8, 2017 10:30 AM – 12:30 PM Second Saturdays Writing Program at Woodinville Library 17105 Avondale Road NE, Woodinville How do you hook readers to ensure they don’t put your novel back on the
I was reading a recent Goodreads Young Adult Newsletter when this cover caught my eye. More specifically, a word caught my eye: GIRL. Katie Bayerl’s book, A PSALM FOR LOST GIRLS, looks great. It’s already on