Before I get to the point of this post, I’ll give you some background. If you’re already familiar with Associated Content, skip the next paragraph. So, it’s not much of a secret that I write for Associated Content. If you’re not familiar with the site, it’s a place that will publish anyone, and I do [...]
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel: I only have 4 or 5 chapters left of Bubba Goes National to rewrite. I was pleasantly surprised to open “The Championships” and find that there were actually very few notes! Michy had said she could see my writing mature while she progressed through [...]
One thing Michy’s been trying to drum into my naturally blonde head is that you want to describe the scene through your character’s eyes. Experience it as they do, feel it like they do. I didn’t quite have a handle on this until today. We were having a discussion on the Accentuate Writers Forum about [...]
Author intrusion? What the heck is author intrusion? I’d never heard of it before Michy accused me of using it. “You’re wrong,” I said, “I’ve never intruded on an author in my entire life.” “*sigh*” she said. Anyway…author intrusion basically means that the author has inserted her voice/thoughts/opinion into the story. For example, in Bubba [...]
I have issued a challenge on my favorite forum, Accentuate Writers. I hope my writing readers will join me there and take up the challenge, too! All right, y’all, let’s kick it into gear! We’re all here to be writers, right? Let’s get our work out there! I hereby offer a challenge. Are you up [...]
No pearls of wisdom tonight, just an announcement! I am so pleased to say that I have finished Budget Horsekeeping. It only took me about 6 weeks to complete since it’s small–somewhere between 60 and 80 pages once the illustrations are added. I really enjoyed writing it–writing non-fiction about a subject I’m familiar with is [...]
Being the straight-forward, get-right-to-the-point kind of gal that I am, I like to say what’s going on (telling, of course) and get on to the next part of the story. I’m goal-oriented to a fault! So, as a result, I tend to forget to include dialogue! Instead of telling the reader what’s happening, I should [...]
I spend a lot of tmie on writer’s forums. Too much time, really, but I digress. When I’m wandering through the various threads, I see a lot of people saying, “Show, don’t tell!” I think they sometimes take it overboard–too much detailed description in a book gets tedious. While I do want some idea of [...]