Dare to Fail: Plotting the next Novel
Outlining the next project may help me get to The End, or it may be a complete failure. Only one way to find out.
Outlining the next project may help me get to The End, or it may be a complete failure. Only one way to find out.
9 reading recommendations for 2018, mostly fiction
Characters often come and go as I get distracted by other things. How then do they maintain such consistency in their smallest quirks?
Half-awake is when I have my best ideas.
Blogging isn’t “cool” anymore, but it’s still worthwhile, at least for me.
Claire McMillan’s second novel delves into family secrets not talked about for so long, they’ve become unknown.
Finishing a book is terrifying, terribly exciting, and a little bittersweet.
Writing fiction from a different chracter’s perspective usually leads to insights about the story itself.
Even after a story seems locked in, I sometimes have to re-ignite my big picture imagination.
Discipline gives us the freedom to be creative.