This TAME YOUR REVISION series started over at The Winged Pen. Here are links to the individual posts: Inventory Slice and Label With Scrivener Throw
In 2017, I participated in the local community garden for the first time. A new growing season is always a hopeful time for me. No
My husband and I went looking for a half-circle of oaks he knew from thirty years ago. (No comments from the peanut gallery 😉 He said their group held hands around it because it was so big (nearly 8 meters around and 24 meters tall!). It’s gotta be old: 600-800 years!
These blossoms and buds look like visual staccato and legato notes. Short, sharp. Open, sweet. Sometimes learning something that you had given up on changes
Revising a novel is a form of bookkeeping. How do you keep from losing your mind? At The Winged Pen, we’re talking Revision. This post
One of the problems with getting feedback on your manuscript is overwhelm. If you’ve got five Word documents floating on your computer somewhere, it can
Revising a novel is a form of bookkeeping. How do you keep from losing your mind? This TAME YOUR REVISION series started over at The
A piano with built-in toolboxes for sewing and putting on make-up. Andreas Landschütz, 1820. MAKK museum in Cologne. © Laurel Decher, 2017. Last week I
Feedback on your writing craft can be so useful. Unless you can’t figure out what your readers are talking about. If you’re a writer who keeps getting comments about adding emotion to your story, this post (and the one connected to it) are for you. How to handle feedback that says: “I like it, but I’m not loving it”.
Joanna Penn is so smiley and enthusiastic and knowledgeable that she always gets me inspired. This webinar was no different. Got a sudden insight from
This year, my husband gave me a Page-a-Day calendar to learn Italian. Today’s page was a dialogue between two men at a bus stop, getting
A year ago, I wrote about our “rastafarian” Joseph and the challenges of writing about other people’s cultures: Skin-colored Felt: Doing other people’s cultures wrong.