A marvelous writer, Steven Barnes, recently wrote about a book that changed his life, and that inspired me to do the same. But I can’t possibly pick just one, I…Continue readingLife-changing books
Part 1: The Five W’s and a H Before reporting became a dying craft, every newbie was taught that a news story had to answer five fundamental questions: Who, What,…Continue readingHow do you build a world?
“Dune” did it to incredible effect. Asimov’s Foundation series did it beautifully. There are other books where this was used to enhance and deepen the worldbuilding. I am talking about…Continue readingWhy epigraphs?
If you are a writer, yes. In a very real sense what you do when you create a fictional world is neither more nor less than being a god of…Continue readingAre you a god?
The Rainforest Writers Retreat 2016 is over My hubby went along this year to see this wondrous place to which I vanish sometimes in the Olympic Peninsula rainforest. The cabin…Continue readingWords in the Woods