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.
A blank EtchASketch makes it pretty clear that I’ll be doodling around in squares because the drawing dot only moves in four directions, each at
This is the seventh (and final!) post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. The first post collects
This is the sixth post in a short series on preparing for (and thriving during) National Novel Writing Month. The first post collects story ingredients