Guest Post on Dialogue
I’ve got a writing/craft related guest post on dialogue over on Trollking.co.uk. The article’s called Siri-ous Dialogue & focuses on how dialogue can help push action forward. Quite a bit on show vs. tell as that goes hand-in-hand with dialogue Read More…
Top 10 Text-to-Speech Fails
When I’m editing writing, what helps the most is to have Scrivener read out loud my novel. Having a computer read it, finds all those annoying typos or mistakes that my brain auto-corrects no matter how many times I read Read More…
Riley the Party Cat
Completely off topic post on Riley the Party Cat. The Doubleclicks, being the wonderful geeks that they are, called for people to send in cat pictures with particular words for their new video, Cats at Parties. If you watch the Read More…
Dealing with Negativity
I’m a huge fan of confronting negativity with humor, especially smarmy sarcastic humor because that’s just my style. But writers often face a deluge of negativity by way of rejection letters, negative book reviews, hate-mail, etc. In the past week Read More…
That Cat is an Asshole
No Flashback or Flashforward today. I feel like talking about the large gauge across my face. My cat is an asshole. To be honest, most cat owners know that cats are completely capable of being assholes. It’s second nature to Read More…
Invaluability because I say so
My husband and I were having a conversation about—well, it started off about critique groups. I was explaining how lucky I am to have found two AMAZING writers and editors that form my critique group. Just absolutely amazing people. The Read More…
DiNozzo says, “No!”
The last four days I spent at the PNWA Writers’ Conference, where my friend and critique group member, Gayle Clemans, had 6 different agents ask for her manuscript (which in the publishing world, is awesome). Between the ‘too busy to Read More…
Styrofoam Cats
At this point in the summer, I think most people have seen what is being dubbed as the “poor man’s A/C” or even the “redneck A/C” depending on where you live. As someone who grew up in the south, I Read More…
Hatch vs. Hatchet
Taking a break from Flashback Friday today to tell you a funny story about occasional stupidity. 😉 Note the two words below and their definitions (Hatch vs. Hatchet) You’d think that being 36, a writer, and a very voracious reader Read More…
Deadlines & the Waiting Game
There is nothing better than a deadline to spur a writer into a mad panicked dash towards the finish line. One deadline approaches–like a stampede of buffalo–and as such, I can’t tell which will happen first: my heart leaping out Read More…
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