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Of Word Processors Old and New
Two weeks ago I wrote here that my topics for upcoming posts would arise from my current project: undertaking a major revision of my paranormal romance The Vanth. This post has nothing to do with...
View ArticleWrite What You Know
There’s a famous old New Yorker cartoon of a writer surrounded by dogs eating, sleeping, scratching themselves, etc. while he types away in one corner. In the doorway stands a woman—his wife? his...
View Articleof Kindness and Cruelty
Confession: I am a wimp when it comes to inflicting trouble and danger on the characters in my fiction. I know well that I am far, far too gentle with them, and if my tales are to contain any...
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Open Book
Reading aloud is the best way I know to find the clogged places in a story’s flow, or identify awkward bits of dialogue. Writing teachers urge us to test our work thus, especially poetry, and I’ve...
View ArticleApologizing to Dogs
In a previous post on Joe Coomer’s work (http://pugetsoundblogs.com/wordspider/2011/10/10/book-review-beachcombing-for-a-shipwrecked-god/ ), I mentioned my desire to find his novel with the intriguing,...
View ArticleLovely Literary Links
Well, I said I would post here every two weeks, and it’s been three. Okay, so I lied. Excuses: family, arthritis, gardening, watching soccer (Allez Pumas!!! http://kitsapsoccerclub.com/), and being...
View ArticleWrapped Up in a Comforting Book
When I am tired, or sick, or depressed, or just want to relax for a while, I like to wrap myself up in a comforting book. My husband shares that habit, and early in our life together we knew we were a...
View ArticleDreams and Fiction
Recently a member of my critique group (which I won’t name, because it’s an unwieldy size already), raised the topic of using dreams in writing. “I’ve heard a great deal about using dreams in your...
View ArticleConfessions of a Recovering Romance Abuser
When I was younger I often said that my hobby was being crossed in love. Despite the flippant tone in which I always said this, it was no joke. Every day, sometimes every hour of the day, I ached, I...
View ArticleFathers Day 2013
As Fathers’ Day ends, I want to celebrate some fathers I know and love: my son Sam; my son-in-law Dwayde; my brother Peter, my brothers-in-law Steve and Joe; and my husband Ian who is not a father...
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