I have done it again. This is where I think having a list of what not to do when writing is important. Write a list of all the “mistakes” you made in your last novel to prevent you from doing them again from the outset. Also, keep that list so you can refer back to…
Read More…the Rabbit Hole
This feeling that I’m feeling is hard to describe. When I was fourteen, my friends and I described it as angst. We talked about the image of it because we were Honors English nerd-types, deeply into imagery and symbolism, deeply into all things “deep”—roiling around in the complicated feelings of teenage protagonists in books like…
Read More…Swordsman—Dinner Table Dilemma
“Wizard versus swordsman, if you could only be one which would you be?” His brown eyes, behind his glasses, narrow, and he smiles. “I’d be a wizard.” Not a one of us would have guessed the other. Max has always been a wizard—clever and conniving… an aura of evil genius wafts around him, much like…
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