Building a Story

September 30, 2011

The old Victorian house stretches upward to the sky in the corner lot of its modest block. It is …

Quotes of the Day: September

September 30, 2011

A collection of the September “Quote of the Day.” The quotes were more weekly than daily this month… Next month …

September 26, 2011

I’ve always known I have a variety of writing styles. My modern fiction tends to be very quick paced, with …

September 23, 2011

You sit down to an empty page. You feel a grand sense of being in your heart or head, something …

September 23, 2011

Autumn has always been one of my favorite times of year. It is when the heat and high energy of …

September 15, 2011

There was a time I guarded my writing. I filled notebooks with stories fantastic and mundane, but the words were …

September 13, 2011

I saw a woman on the street today. Her wings were dusty, faded like sun-bleached paper, and two feathers were …

September 6, 2011

A writer has a way with words—we understand them on a level deeper than academic. We need words more than …

September 1, 2011

An excerpt from my novel, Time and Tide, still in the process of creation. It is set in an original …