February 15, 2013July 21, 2020Uncategorized What Lines Inspire You? You know those passages that make you excited to be a writer. Those descriptions you have to read twice maybe even three times because they are just […] Read more
February 1, 2013July 21, 2020Uncategorized Judging Resources We writers research…a lot. It’s unavoidable. No matter what you write, you need to look something up. We know you can’t automatically trust […] Read more
December 17, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized Hidden Magic Sometimes we get so used to seeing things we become immune to it’s magic. Over the weekend, family and friends from DC […] Read more
November 19, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized Sometimes We Need a Kick Writing is our passion. Doesn’t mean we always feel like doing it. I’ve been struggling lately with motivation. The scenes are forming […] Read more
October 5, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized How Do You Like Your Backstory? Reading King of Thorns got me thinking about backstory. Like most aspects of writing, there are no hard and fast rules to […] Read more
September 24, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized Let Your Baby Go There comes a time in every story’s life when it’s been polished so often it’s luminescent. When that time comes, we authors need […] Read more
August 24, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized Digging Up That Passion If you want books on writing I’d recommend memoirs rather than the how-to books. Don’t get me wrong, the how-to books are […] Read more
May 4, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized My Fight Scenes Reek I’ve discovered I’m not good at writing fight scenes. The last two books I read made my scenes look so unfortunate. “He […] Read more
April 2, 2012July 21, 2020Uncategorized Mark Your Own Path I’ve read often how important it is for writers to have a blog. I was glad because I enjoy blogging but recently, […] Read more