Category: Writing techniques

Renovating Exiled Heart Feb. 17, 2019 / One Comment
What’s your favorite television show? I’m game for anything related to home improvement. I love the way the hosts take a house that’s horribly outdated…
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The Balance Beam of Theme May. 18, 2016 / 0 Comments
Theme. That’s an elusive term to grasp. If a writer pushes too hard at a theme, it’s easy to overdo, and she comes across as…
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Entangling the Reader in the Plot May. 11, 2016 / 0 Comments
Many of you know that, surprise, surprise, I was not an English major in college. I was a physics major, and the language I spoke…
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When a Misplaced Letter Creates an Oops Moment Feb. 16, 2016 / 0 Comments
[caption id="attachment_1029" align="alignleft" width="264"] Photo courtesy of Quinn Dombrowski and www.flickr.com.[/caption] As writers, we’ve all done it. We’ve looked at a manuscript so long that…
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How I Almost Ruined My Next Novel Feb. 02, 2016 / 0 Comments
[caption id="attachment_1017" align="alignleft" width="240"] Photo by PhotoSteve101 and courtesy of www. flickr.com[/caption] It started innocently enough. I’d completed a revised draft of my next novel…
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