I woke up this morning to find literally about a foot of snow on the porch…and it’s still snowing. This is the first big storm since at least two years before my kids were born. It may be the first big storm since the blizard of 1995, when Erin was snowed in at our place.…
Here is the second in my ongoing essays about my list of writing tips: The Trick: Raising expectations in one direction but having the story go in the opposite direction. The Trick is the secret to writing, the thing that makes a story work: expectation followed by something other than the expected outcome – but…
Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. Here is the second in my ongoing essays about my list of writing tips: The Trick: Raising expectations in one direction but having the story go in the opposite direction. The Trick is the secret to writing, the thing that makes a story…
Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. Here is the second in my ongoing essays about my list of writing tips: The Trick: Raising expectations in one direction but having the story go in the opposite direction. The…
11 years ago, in the fall of 1998, I noticed something odd. We had really warm weather in mid-December. (I noticed this because it led to my baby being hospitalized with pnemonia, so it stuck in my mind.) This continued every year there after. The summers were hot, too. Until this year. This summer was…
Santa came to the local shopping market today. He brought horses and a carriage, not enough snow for his sleigh, I guess. Santa and three of my children (you can see part of Ping-Ping and Juss’s hat.) Orville was away with John today (they went to the Army-Navy game with Grandpa.) So I had the…
The latest writing post by author Danielle Ackley-McPhail went up late last night. Here is the link: http://damcphail.livejournal.com/
A friend directed me to this review of Prospero Lost, which is from a free magazine distributed by her library: http://www.bookpage.com/reviews.php?id=10001811
In the comments thread of my last writing post, a question arose about what I meant by a scene needing two ideas to make it come alive. Glancing back at my Writing Tips list, I noticed that this idea is the very first thing listed. It occurred to me that it might be a good…
Originally published at Welcome to Arhyalon. You can comment here or there. In the comments thread of my last writing post, a question arose about what I meant by a scene needing two ideas to make it come alive. Glancing back at my Writing Tips list, I noticed that this idea is the very first…