Stuck on the Loom
So, I’ve been weaving this virtual tapestry. It’s complicated–threads of different colors and textures. Ribbons and yarns. Beads and shells. I’ve worked my way to the 75% mark of my Young Adult novel where the action presses…
The Cruelty of Fiction Writers
My teen boy protagonist is about to suffer. I am going to see that he does. As written right now, Jack’s rented horse, Thor, causes some inconvenience. But inconvenience does not make the compulsion to turn another…
Telling a Better Story
I am typing at my desk at the Blue Ridge Mountain Christian Writers Conference, in Black Mountain, North Carolina. (If any bad guys are reading this, I’ll have you know I left behind the forester. Don’t let…
8 reasons to keep a five-year memory book
Nine years ago I started my first one-year journal. I’m grateful for eight reasons. 1. Confining thoughts to four, five, or six tight lines requires the writer to be succinct and brief, a habit that has benefitted…
How dare you?
I should write what I know. What qualifies me to get in the head of a boy?
