A little inspiration... (Ira Glass)

Something to keep the juices flowing. 

Steinbeck vs. Hemingway on Writing

Steinbeck: Hemingway: Perhaps this is nothing but the pantster vs. (sort of) plotter approach, but I think it goes deeper than that. What do...

Oh, you grammar Nazis, you...

I'm one. I admit it. I'm even proud of it. (Yeah, I taught English for ten years.) I  hate  it when people misuse punctuation. Missp...

Magical Realism Meets Disenchanted Science

I'm excited. My writer friend Edith Parzefall just released her second novel, Crumple Zone , a story of psychological suspense pub...

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling

Found this via Janet Reid 's blog this morning--thank you, Janet! Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coates shares tweets on storyteller wisdo...

I'm an author! (On Goodreads)

Thanks to Pure Slush and GORGE: A Novel in Stories , I now have an author page on Goodreads . How cool is that? :D Can't wait for my fi...

Copycat

The awesome editor at Pure Slush  invited me to be their featured author this January. What does that mean, exactly? Well, I needed to provi...

My three copies of GORGE arrived!

I'm in bliss :) Writer heaven. Literary nirvana.  You can get a copy through Lulu.com :  "a  novel in stories, 33 writers weave sto...

50 Best Literary Insults (Thank you, ShortList)

You have favorite lines from Shakespeare, don't you? Roald Dahl, Margaret Atwood, James Joyce? Lines so poignant, so rife with truth tha...

My Next Big Thing

I was invited to participate in the NEXT BIG THING blog hop by the awesome Vanessa Wu of Intense Sensations  (read her awesome Big Thing pos...

Post-NaNo Blues

On Friday I skidded past the NaNo winning line at 50,022 words and felt all good and self-satisfied with myself. I decided to take the week...

By the skin of my teeth, but I did it.

Which makes me a

NaNo--the last 1,000 words

Whew

NaNo Update Nov. 28 2012

Pffff... I'm aiming for a historic redefinition of the 'comeback' concept. See that slump there, from Day 17 to Day 25. I flatli...

NaNo Update -- 2012/11/18

So I didn't make those 5K I promised the other day... Or any day since. *Sigh* But I did  manage to catch up, at least to the par per da...

NaNo Update 2012/11/14

I have been remiss in my NaNo updates, haven't I? Yeah... Well, I've been remiss in my NaNo, period. I'm far behind my goal of 3...

NaNo Update 2012.11.01

Yep, I started at midnight. Hope to get in enough word count to make me feel a bit more comfortable about that 75K goal I've committed t...

Where Do Ideas Come From?

With NaNo prep running rampant everywhere, the forums teeming with excellent plots and characters so alive you hear their pulse, isn't ...

NaNo Spotlight Interview

Today the great Chris Kelworth features me in his NaNo Spotlight series. Come on over and join the conversation!