| Tue, 15 May 2012 11:00:00 +0000 THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CHARACTER The Development of a Character–a Peek Inside One Writer’s Head By Parker Blue I don’t often remember where character ideas come from, but in the case of Fang in my Demon Underground series, I remember very well. You see, my main character, Val Shapiro, had just been kicked out of the house by her parents [...] |
| Fri, 11 May 2012 11:00:29 +0000 AND NOW FOR A DIFFERENT MESSAGE AND NOW FOR A DIFFERENT MESSAGE from Trish Jensen A couple of months ago I wrote a blog right here about writing what I don’t know. I praised and praised the value of creating a story that included people, occupations, locations you know nothing about. I take it back. At least for this month. Because [...] |
| Tue, 08 May 2012 16:15:08 +0000 HOLT MERIT AWARD Lindi Peterson has just been awarded a Holt Merit Award for Best First Book for Her Best Catch. Congratulations, Lindi! http://www.virginiaromancewriters.com/ Contests/holtwinners.html |
| Fri, 04 May 2012 15:08:40 +0000 MY UPDATE My Update by Kathleen McKenna Hello all invisible friends. I haven’t written for a while. Well in all honesty, I haven’t done much for a while there have been a couple events which put me in this state. First of all there was a sale at Sam’s Club, buy 50 boxes of Captain Crunch get [...] |
| Tue, 01 May 2012 16:31:42 +0000 Trish Jensen has an interview! Donnell Bell asks Trish Jensen questions! http://www.getlostinastory.blogspot.com/ |
| Fri, 27 Apr 2012 11:00:49 +0000 STORIES MADE REAL BY THE TELLING Stories Made Real by the Telling by Kathryn Magendie Most of us have heard about writing what we know in our fiction. But sometimes writing what we don’t know reveals the hidden, unearths it as if we’ve shoveled deep into the soil, excavating through dark dense layers. And sometimes writing what we do not [...] |
| Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:00:17 +0000 GO WEST, DEAR READER GO WEST, DEAR READER by Kathleen Eagle As a military brat I’d lived in a lot of places by the time we moved toMassachusetts, but I was already in love with the West. I felt personally insulted by my fifth grade teacher’s claim that, “It’s a vast wasteland west of the Mississippi River.” I later [...] |
