Now that we have talked about lots of material things and places to put them the next question is how do we move all those things about. So we need to talk a bit here about modes of transportation and how we can learn more about them. Depending on your period and locale, your characters … More NaNoWriMo VP 6 – some thoughts on getting it there
Today, I am prepping to begin my NaNoWriMo experience. For me that means doing the following things…
Being able to see and hear and touch and taste and smell all of those things for themselves. Being able to turn them in the light and sneeze at the dust upon them or smell the lemon of the furniture wax. Too many writers make the mistake of just telling people that it is raining … More NaNoWriMo VP 5 – It takes senses to make sense!
And that brings us to mystery writers. Sad to say true mysteries are dying out due to the ease of access and glut of technology available to crime fighters these days, with the private eye novel especially being close to extinction, but there are still some good ones out there and some of the rules … More NaNoWriMo VP 4 – Mystery Writers
Shifting temporal gears here, medieval fantasy novelists, friends, you are also not immune. As someone who spent two years in the company of hard core Renn Faire artists and LARPers, let me assure you should really do some research into what your characters are carrying. Take it from me, you absolutely cannot swing a broadsword … More NaNoWriMo VP 3 – What’s In Its Pocketses, Part 2, FANTASY and Sword and Board.
So to begin with item one, in a rather famous dark cave a short little hobbit with hairy feet whilst riddling for his life once asked a seeming little monster with throat issues, “What’s in my pocket?” Okay, as a riddle this was unfair, and frankly Gollum should have called the sneaky, feelthy hobbit on … More NaNoWriMo VP 2 – What’s In Its Pocketses, Part 1
Well hello, greetings, guten tag, moshi moshi and aloha. It’s great to be here this evening with all of you as we create some brave new worlds. Today we are here to discuss one of the more neglected arts of writing, especially in this age of decreasing attention spans, world building. Since this topic is … More NaNoWriMo Virtual Presentation 1 – Intro
Below is a link to an essay I read today in the New Yorker dealing with a novelist and his lies. It resonates with me on many levels and raises some very interesting questions about race, culture, and identity in our modern age and very mixed American society. It is intriguing to me because the … More Some thoughts and questions about identity
You know how books always have the bit at the front about how the people in the book are imaginary and that any resemblance to living people is just coincidence? Yea, not so much. As an author, I have always found others interesting despite my social issues, but never realized that I, a confirmed introvert, … More Writing process: Birth of a heroine
So yes, folks, I did my FIRST zoom interview/lecture as a creative writer. For clarity this was not a job interview but a “TV” interview. It is going to be uploaded into the cloud for an educational series. So, okay then, the first things I did were things I always do. I considered the topic … More Things I learned doing my FIRST zoom interview/lecture
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