Tag Archive for writing


MFA Crash Course: Day Four

published on May 24, 2010

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MFA Crash Course: Day Three

published on May 23, 2010

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MFA Crash Course: Day Two

published on May 22, 2010

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Teaser Tuesday

published on May 11, 2010

More of my wip, Interior of a Heart. This is a literary YA I’m working on about a girl turned into an outcast in her town when she keeps a secret for her boyfriend, a soldier who has gone MIA…

Teaser Tuesday

published on April 27, 2010

More of my wip, Interior of a Heart. This is a literary YA I’m working on about a girl turned into an outcast in her town when she keeps a secret for her boyfriend, a soldier who…

Teaser Tuesday

published on April 19, 2010

A little more of my WIP, Interior of a Heart. This is a literary YA I’m working on about a girl turned into an outcast in her town when she keeps a secret for her boyfriend, a soldier…

How Writers Do It: A Writing Process Series – Part Four

published on March 25, 2010

The idea: A 4-week blog series in which eight (8) writers give their views on eight (8) different writing process guides. For more details, visit here.

This week’s topic: Where Stories Come…

How Writers Do It: A Writing Process Series – Part Three

published on March 18, 2010

The idea: A 4-week blog series in which eight (8) writers give their views on eight (8) different writing process guides. For more details, visit here.

This week’s topic: Deepening Your Characters: What is at the…

Writer’s Block, The Writer’s Strain of Asthma

published on February 20, 2010

I have asthma. I found out several years ago when I went to an allergist and he asked me how long I’d had it. To which I responded, “Um, I don’t.” He snorted, laughed in my face, not unkindly,…

Underpainting Yourself into Your Work

published on August 21, 2009

We can’t escape it. Somehow bits of ourselves worm and wheedle themselves into everything we write, even without our knowledge. Our opinions and views, our history, our emotional hang ups. The boy we pined for. (You know who you…