the journey of genre
If there is one thing I’ve struggled with during the process of writing Tiny Shadows, it’s genre. I used to think of genre as a pretty straight-forward thing. Dumbed-down, agents tell you thatRead More…
25Jun/15
abortion abortion abortion: writing about taboo topics
This weekend, my husband winced when I started telling our new friends about my work in progress, Tiny Shadows. I took it as both an insult and a compliment when he laterRead More…
the business of writing
You hear the term “work-life balance” in a lot of work environments. I think about it often in terms of the “work-write balance,” because my life revolves so heavily around writing when myRead More…
the rules of writing (and when to break them)
After I inadvertently sent a writer’s group into a tizzy over the made-up adverb “boredly,” I got to thinking about the rules of writing. There is some great literature available about howRead More…