If I can't be a dragon-whisperer, can I at least befriend a talking dog?
I love fountain pens but they haven't loved me. As I writer, pens are one of my primary tools. While I refuse to freeze in a garret, writing with a fountain pen has always appealed to me. The flow of fountain pen ink is deeply satisfying. Over the years, I've collected at least seven. Whenever... Continue Reading →
Last week, I shared about how much I hated my NaNoWriMo novel and how I got unstuck. This week, I'd like to share the wild and crazy ideas my friends gave me as I was wrestling with my inner critic and trying to figure out how to fix my broken story. Some of these suggestions... Continue Reading →
The first time I handled a thesaurus, I was about 11 years old. I flipped through the book, trying to understand the purpose of the collected words. I found the section on color and read through the lists. All those words just to describe a shade of blue!It was love at first sight.As an adult,... Continue Reading →
November is over and I've won NaNoWriMo* for the 8th year in a row. By this time, you'd think I'd be bored or feel like writing 50,000 words in 30 days was getting routine. I was worried that might happen, so I made a point of trying some new things this year, with surprising... Continue Reading →
Now that November is over, it’s time to see what I learned and decide what’s next. Even though it’s my fifth year writing a novel the NaNoWriMo way, I still learned some things about writing and the creative process that I didn’t know. In some cases, I was just reminded of some things I’d forgotten,... Continue Reading →
