Last weekend was one of those longtime-coming-but-so-worth-the-wait kind of events. After 18 months of planning, best-selling author Rachel Hauck spoke at Write in the Springs, the annual conference for the Colorado …
Do What You’re Afraid to Do
It appears that one of my favorite songs in The Sound of Music is the song Julie Andrews liked least of all. The Sound of Music. What a story, with Julie …
The Quotable Writer: 10 Favorite Quotes About Writing
Writers love words … and I’m a writer who also loves quotes. All kinds of quotes. Today, I’ve rounded up some favorite quotes about writing for you. Read ’em, write …
If You Give a Character a Lie …
If You Give a Character a Lie … If you give a character a Lie that is tied to some Dark Moment in his past … he is going to …
Writer’s Math: Prep a Scene with 5+5+1
As a novelist, I thought I’d escaped all things numerical. Fine with me, as the mention of numbers is reason to cue the white noise in my brain. Through the …