Being an author makes you pray. Because when you have become a god of your authorial universe, you suddenly wish you would hear more definitive input from your characters. Don’t they have the next plotpoint? Why is the protagonist obsessed with pursing her lips if she doesn’t have something to say? What is the antagonist’s… Continue reading Being an Author Makes You Pray
Tag: for the Writers
Flash Fiction: Freedom Freddie
[Say that blogpost title five times fast.] Writing Prompt: Childhood Pet While we're all talking about independence, here's my morbid memory of one of my family's first pets. I wrote this for the Writer's Prompt in A Year of Writing Dangerously that asks to write about a childhood pet. Freedom Freddie Freedom Freddie. A duckling… Continue reading Flash Fiction: Freedom Freddie
WIP: Unfixed Teaser
In the course of writing a novel you inevitably come across people asking, "What's your book about?" In the course of submitting a work-in-progress (WIP) to an agent or publisher, there is a query to submit that states what the book is about - quite similar to the back of a book to pique the… Continue reading WIP: Unfixed Teaser
Poem: What’s Your Emergency?
According to my brief look at the weather, it's supposed to rain every day next week. Summer is just around the corner though....right?! Here's my most recent poem, actually not written during a thunderstorm, but during a wonderful time of rainless worship at my church. What's Your Emergency? The thunder cracked like a whip… Continue reading Poem: What’s Your Emergency?
Unique Book Promotion
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Why I Do What I Do
I thought it fitting that I start this blog with an explanation. The book A Year of Writing Dangerously is full of inspiration for writers and ends with a list of 52 writer's prompts - one for each week of the year. Number 12 asks to write about why we want to write. My Response: I… Continue reading Why I Do What I Do