Don’t stay down, no matter how long ago you fell off the writing horse. If you want to write, no matter what it is—letters, a journal, a biography, your musings on life, family history, a poetry collection, that book you’ve always wanted to write—join me and start the challenge today.
There are as many types and ways to journal as there are people who keep them! Journaling is a way to think out loud and discover what is within, especially if you freewrite (just start writing and keep going as you empty your mind onto the page). You will find out some interesting aspects and … [Read more…]
guest post by Phoebe Mathews The first hardcover I ever wrote was a fantasy titled Cast Down the Stars, for Holt Rinehart Winston. That was many years ago when the fantasy market was thin and so my agent sent me off in the direction of romance, Regency and YA. It wasn’t what I wanted to … [Read more…]
Since I’ve decided it’s time to do an interview or two for this column, I wanted to start with a friend who has a career and an outlook I wouldn’t mind mimicking. She’s also, interestingly, the very first person I ever met at an RWA meeting. So I figured she should be the very first … [Read more…]
The non-human characters I have created as a fantasy writer have varied from the goddess Rhiannon/Epona in The Sword-Edged Blonde to the vampires of Blood Groove and The Girls with Games of Blood, and most currently the Tufa of The Hum and the Shiver. Below is a list of things for you to keep in mind when … [Read more…]