Stories into worlds From small things do bigger things grow — cubs into lions, acorns into oaks, ideas into stories, then collections of stories and then worlds. Some time ago…Continue readingSuperheroes, Third Class, arise…
One of the perennial questions posed to authors by fans and interviewers is the fabled “Where do you get your ideas?” I too often answer with a snarky quip…”Off the…Continue readingHow do you write a book?
Is there anything in your home – something you own, perhaps something you inherited – that makes you regretful? Guilty? Unsettled? In 1973, my father’s job took us to Zambia…Continue readingWhat are you guilty of?
To make you think. To make you remember. To make you understand. Going into a house where a writer has lived and worked, wandering the hallways they walked, seeing things…Continue readingWhat is a museum for? …
Writing off the map It’s a favorite panel topic at science fiction conventions – scratch around in any con’s program and some variation of “pantser or plotter?” will pop up,…Continue readingFlying by the Seat of Your Pants
Every author runs into it from wannabes and earnest new writers — Do you have any tips on how I can write…? I usually do my best to offer good…Continue readingHow can I write…?
It was my husband, whose own cultural heritage includes the Depression in the United States, who first told me the story of the hobo and his stone soup. As the…Continue readingStone soup and grave robbing
I usually write about writing. But today… today I am writing about NOT writing. And love. And pain. I’m one of those ‘childless by choice’ people who never really wanted…Continue readingNot writing today because of cat
We hold this truth to be self-evident – at some point, if you have reached a certain stage of being ‘known’, you will end up doing an interview. How to…Continue readingThe Interview
Oh, but it’s so appropriate to begin this post with those words… It was so long ago and I was so, so young, . A and so full of the…Continue readingHow to Get Started Writing