Start With A Place Name
The Okanagan Valley where I grew up is blessed with an array of colorful place names, including names derived from the Salish language of the original […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Writing is Writing is Writing 3 comments
I’m going to let you in on a little secret: you write much more than you realize. Most of us write a ton of email […]
Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 21 17 comments
Thanks to a holiday long weekend that ran a little extra long, this week’s check in comes later than usual, with my apologies. But it’s […]
Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 20 6 comments
1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]
Writing Empathy
Stories are powerful tools for creating empathy. Let’s look at the idea of “writing empathy” as an inroad into story ideas. Think about a time […]
Rewriting With The Surgical Drape Technique
When a character has surgery on TV, you know how the prep nurse always drapes them in sheets first so that only the area being […]
Chinua Achebe: The Danger of Not Having Your Own Stories
“Then I grew older and began to read about adventures in which I didn’t know that I was supposed to be on the side of […]
Weekly Check In: 2015 Week 19 23 comments
1. Let us know how you fared with last week’s writing goals (whether you shared them with us here or not). 2. Share your goals […]
Beyond The Only One
At the very end, I read [Shonda Rimes] an audience question that said something like, “How do you think your shows have changed the position […]
