Writing
Summary: 100 Day Project
In the 100 Day Project, one creates an art project over 100 days. In my case, I declared that I ...
Mistake #1: Someone Will Read This
My first drafts of the novel that nearly wasn’t had the same slapdash sense of panic I felt while trying ...
Space: Richard Peck
Richard Peck, the man, the legend, gave a wonderful deep dive into writing for a younger audience. It’s an SCBWI ...
Conversation: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is not necessarily an allusion, though without that literary device, the form itself would not ...
Conversation: Girl With All The Gifts
Below are three levels of conversation around Girl With All the Gifts. The first layer is the one I usually ...
Voice: Hannibal S02E08
Like many foodies, I gravitated to Hannibal the series both for the beautiful dinner parties and the people eating*. As ...
Structure: Outer Limits
If one good thing has come from a time of mass-binging old TV shows, it’s learning how to watch shows ...
Sunday Check-in 6
How it’s going: I’m about 3 weeks behind in posts and have run out of the backlog to post. It’s ...
Mistake 6: Three Spaces of Story
One of my favorite comic book series was called Planetary. It’s still called Planetary, I’m just having issues with tenses. ...
Conversation: Cabin In the Woods
As previously surmised on this very site, there are probably tens of thousands of alphabet-type books in existence. There are ...