I’ve been thinking a lot about this scene from the movie The Incredibles (the first one). In case you haven’t seen it, it comes near the end of the movie, […]
Writing
Google Maps Street View: An Awesome Writing Tool
I pulled up the town on Google Maps, chose a corner that made sense for this scene to take place on and hit Street View. So awesome.
Author Photo Decision Time
It seems to me that one of the reasons authors do what they do is that they get to hide behind their stories. Unlike musicians or actors, we get to […]
“142 Ostriches” Is Getting Published!
I have been holding out on you, dear readers. For almost two months now I’ve been dying to tell you the news, but I didn’t want to jinx anything. I’m […]
Setting Ourselves Up To Eat Well
I don’t know about you, but when I’m writing, I find it damn near impossible to answer the question: what should I eat? For that matter, I’m not a big […]
Novels Are Marathons, Short Stories Are Sprints
When I was a kid, I HATED running. Hated it. Here in California, in middle school, we were forced to run with the goal of a ten-minute mile (which I […]
Five Good Sentences – The Key To Getting Unstuck
I’ve been struggling with my new story. I just can’t seem to find my way into it. I have an instinct that having some kind of structure to work into […]