For some time now, I have been thinking of a post on writing about good and evil. Can good be interesting? What are the pitfalls people run into when designing villains. This sort of thing. Most likely, it will be in three parts—Writing About Good Settings, Writing About Good Characters, and Writing About Evil. Here…
Many, many years ago, I spent my sixth grade in a large brick school house that is no longer in use. It had a wonderful library that was shadowe and wooden and everything a magical library should be. It had shelves on the walls and shelves on a the walls of a hall…
Back To School Week has finally ended. Now, I realize the rest of you only face Back-To-School Night, or maybe two. This year, I had to attend four at four different schools. Luckily, for the first time, none of them were on the same night. But this meant four nights almost in a row of…
Went to Fall for the Book Festival in Fairfax, VA this weekend. John and I appeared on a panel with fellow writers Brenda Clough and Sue Lange (check out their stuff here: Book View Cafe.) The panel was great fun. Afterwards Brenda and her husband Larry fed us lamb. I love lamb. I’ve almost never…
Reposting this as a test. My apologies: Muggles in unexpected places So…we’re playing a Harry Potter game in which our fellow students are characters from other books and stories. One of the players is playing the Princess of Magical Australia. She had a special magic power that makes it so that if she shakes someone’s…
So…we’re playing a Harry Potter game in which our fellow students are characters from other books and stories. One of the players is playing the Princess of Magical Australia. She had a special magic power that makes it so that if she shakes someone’s hand, she sees the alternate universe the other students actually come…
This is a test post for working out the website/LJ process.. But because I have to type something: I have noticed that my daughter is inundated with Chinese things: Chinese grocery stores, Chinese TV, Jackie Chan in Chinese on DVD. Sometimes, I wonder if she would be better off if there was less. If she…
After years of hints and wheedling, John is FINALLY reading the Harry Dresden books. Yesterday, Juss blurted out the dire cliffhanging ending of Book 11. John objected. Orville: “Don’t worry, Dad. You’ll forget it.” Dad: “I don’t forget anything except phone numbers and your names.” Orville thinks about this carefully for a minute: “Just pretend…
Website Joy I remember the first time I saw a URL (is it an URL or a URL) on a motion picture poster. I laughed out loud. “What a good idea!” I thought, “Instead of cramming a million bits of info onto a poster, they can just put a website and put their info there.”…
Wright’s Writing Corner coming soon. Meanwhile: Juss: “Whose this Luna character? Why is she inportant enough to be in Harry Potter Clue? She’s not even in Griffindor!” Mom: “Luna’s a lot of fun.” Juss: “Why?” Mom: “She’s loopy” Juss: “Does Ron like her?” Mom, baffled: “Ron…not particularly.” Juss, who just heard the end of Harry…