When I was a little girl, my mom used to tell me, “You can be anything you want to be.” I would say, “When I grow up I want to be a [insert unlikely career here],” and my mom said, “If you work hard, you can make it happen.” By about second grade I had […]
I feel like, after a five year hiatus from writing, I’m re-learning the craft all over again. I also feel like I am a much different writer than I used to be. Five years doesn’t seem like a lot, but when it’s the difference between 17 and 22 it’s significant. A lot has happened in
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On Thursday we had our first meeting of a brand-new critique group. My old critique group dissolved awhile back after about a year and a half of slowly dying, and me and one of the members from that group have been trying to get something put together ever since. Thursday was the much-anticipated (for me,
I’ve decided to start something new. Every week, I am going to post my progress from the previous week on my WIPs. It’s a way for me to keep myself accountable. Maybe I’ll continue to press forward with my writing each week if I know on Sunday I’ll have to tell the whole internet about
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I feel like one of the aspects of writing that is most challenging for me is naming characters. Sound simple, right? Wrong. A name seem to define the character. It dictates how that character behaves, acts, reacts, talks, thinks, and feels. Shakespeare was clearly trying to be ironic or cheeky or something when he said
You know when you’ve been stewing for days–nay, weeks, months!–over a particular problem? And you have racked your brain, and you just simply cannot figure out how to get around this plot problem, but you can’t move forward o the project until it’s solved? Totally hate that. But when you’re talking to yourself in the
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