Before you trash your outline
It’s day two of NaNoWriMo and I hear rumblings of getting-started issues. Before you trash the outline you’ve so carefully crafted, consider Point of View (POV) first: 1. Are you writing in the...
View ArticleTelling Your Own Story
“If we don’t tell our stories, they will be told by people who do not understand them at all.” Teresa Jordan’s words resonate with me, both as a writer and as a teacher. I was very lucky to hear her...
View ArticleCharacter Creation
This year all my kids are participating in NaNoWriMo. Past Octobers have been crazy enough, with my older daughter asking for advice and plotting away—changing her novel ideas as often as her...
View ArticlePhase Drafting (Novel Planning)
It’s NaNoWriMo time again and the chatter moves t [...]
View ArticleCluster Plotting (novel planning)
There are many ways to plot a novel. No one way is rig [...]
View ArticleWriting a NaNo Anthology of Friday Flash
In Readers are Everything, I wrote about posting short [...]
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