This week! Books! First up, I’m taking an early fall blog break over the next few weeks and will be back posting in October. As always, I’ll still be answering emails and scheduling edits and coaching sessions, so feel free to reach out if I can be helpful. Sophie Masson has a cool post on […]
One of the things that has always mystified me about using A.I. for fiction is that the services often promise to dispense with drudgery to help you focus on the “big stuff.” What, pray tell, is the “big stuff” exactly? Sure, some scenes mark turning points and fulcrums in the overall narrative. Some are more […]
This week! Books! I collected a whole load of links over the past few weeks, so many that I am going to revert to providing the links with limited commentary. (Do you actually prefer this approach? Should I do this more? Let me know in the comments!) Han Kang Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature […]
With social media fragmenting, I’m bringing back my old “You Tell Me” Wednesday discussions to try to get good old fashioned blog conversations going. If you’re reading in a feed reader or via email, please click through to the post to leave a public comment and join the discussion! There’s so much pressure on authors to be […]
One of the earliest lessons we are taught as children is that two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because your sister hit you doesn’t mean you get to hit her back. Just because your brother overturned the Monopoly board doesn’t mean you get to break something on his desk. When we get older, we […]