The latest episode of the Writing and Publishing Podcast comes to you from curbside at my son’s school on a Friday, with one minute to go until the bell rings. Why, you ask, am I recording a podcast at my kid’s school? Because the biggest challenge for many writers I know is how to balance…Continue reading Writing tips for busy moms: how to balance writing and family
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When Bad Plots Kill Good Novels
How to plot a novel When I wrote my first novel, I thought I knew what I was doing. I’d just returned from three months solo in China, and my experiences had been so life-changing, I felt they could form the basis of a novel. I’d also recently published my first story collection, a novel in…Continue reading When Bad Plots Kill Good Novels
Creative Writing Prompts for High School Students
So, you’re halfway through the summer break, you’ve made good headway into your summer reading list for high school, and you’re itching to write but you don’t know where to start. You’ve always been creative, but you know that when school starts in a few weeks, your afternoons will be filled with required reading, exhausting math homework,…Continue reading Creative Writing Prompts for High School Students
Writing Spaces: Hemingway’s Studio
The latest issue of Domino Magazine features Hemingway’s Key West writing studio, where he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and Have and Have Not. See the photos and read the story in the Spring 2015 issue of Domino Magazine.