10. “Did you finish the book yet?” (Variations: How close are you? When will you finish? Are you actually going to finish this one?) 9. “When will it come out?” Don’t bother explaining that finishing the story is only the beginning. Folks outside the industry tend to romanticize the process: we authors toil with quill…
Stuck for a way to begin writing? Describing a photograph may break a stalemate. Friend and muse, Katherine Key, snapped this compelling photo along a Western Colorado Trail. Inspired by this photograph, a description can be literal, as shown below. Or lyrical, as the final example suggests. Either approach will get the juices flowing. A…
“Perhaps the world will end at the kitchen table, while we are laughing and crying, eating of the last sweet bite.” – Joy Harjo In my fiction writing, I examine the complexities of familial love, usually as it relates to the bond between mothers and daughters and how it can be fraught with challenges, maybe…
I tend to use PERSONIFICATION a lot in my writing because I believe all things have a living spirit in them.
An example of personification is easy to spot in Hawthorne’s, The Scarlet Letter.
It’s finally here — that email in your inbox from the editor you hired to provide feedback on your WIP! For advice on securing a good developmental editor, you can read my older post here. The developmental letter: My first tip is fairly pedestrian. Sorry. But… breathe! Deeply and deliberately. Be present. Remember that writing…