With the Full-Bodied Novelist Retreat coming up this weekend, I’ve been playing the violin again. There is a connection, so stay with me here.
When It’s Hard to Relate
As a writer you know you must allow your characters to live through you as they unfold on the page. But what if the character feels unlike you?
Fall Writing Classes
Fill Your Wednesdays with Writing!
Bellevue College, North Campus, Redmond, WA
*These classes are for adults; high school students may enroll only with instructor permission.
Three Keys to Scene-Weaving
Make sure your scene answers these questions before your reader asks them, unless you are deliberately withholding that information to build tension. (For more keys,
Scene-Weaving Challenge!
The Challenge
1. Take the given elements and smoothly combine them in a scene (or part of a scene).
2. Paste your scene in the comments,
Scene Weaving Class, and The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing
When her father begins having conversations with dead relatives, photographer Amina Eapen returns to her parents’ home in Albequerque, and a past she has been running from.
Plotting and Healing
Six weeks ago I made the wildly improbable promise to give twenty hours a week to my verse-novel. Between writing classes,
Writing the Hidden Story
I love those “aha!” moments when a character sneaks up on me–and I suddenly realize I’m not writing the book I thought I was writing.
An Interview with Author Lois Brandt + teen writing with Lois at Bellevue College
One of the cool things about taking teen writing at Bellevue College, is working with a published author.
Character Mashup–“Maybe Dats Your Pwoblem, Too”
This poem, by Jim Hall, is one of my favorite mashups, and I often read it in Talking to Your Characters and in Teen Poets at Bellevue College.