Preparing for Christmas has been a hard road this year. It all started in November. I knew it would be busy. That particular month always…
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[caption id="attachment_316" align="alignleft" width="220"] Courtesy of www.flickr.com[/caption] It happened one summer day. The breakup with my agent. I met her at a conference. One of…
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[caption id="attachment_310" align="alignleft" width="276"] Courtesy of www.flickr.com[/caption] Our hot water heater died last night (Friday) at 11 PM. It happened like this. I’d had a…
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This is the last post of my series on numbers in writing. I want to talk about scene chords. In his book, Plot and Structure, James Scott Bell discusses…
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[caption id="attachment_299" align="alignleft" width="180"] Courtesy of www.flickr.com[/caption] It’s hard to believe I’ve been blogging for nine weeks now. When I re-launched my new website and…
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