What's in a name?
Not long ago, I shared a plane journey with a woman who was heading to Haiti to continue charity work with the victims of
Not long ago, I shared a plane journey with a woman who was heading to Haiti to continue charity work with the victims of
I think it was the great Ray Bradbury who said a story has three parts – the writer, the story itself and the audience. A
The second part of Michael Hauge’s brilliant workshop was on the character arc. Talking about the main character – hero or heroine – or
Watching movies as work – now that’s something I can really get behind. It’s not procrastination – it’s research. Even better – it’s homework. I
A funny thing happened a couple of months ago – I became a knitter. It started like this…. I was in Canada, looking for a
Here’s a bit of a confession – I am a Science Fiction nut. (OK – the Twilight Zone Blog back in November was probably a
I’m currently writing a section of my new book set at an outback race meeting, and a thought occurred to me… every book I’ve written
At a recent event, I was lucky enough to hear a reading from Audrey Niffenegger – author of The Time Traveler’s Wife. She read a
On a weekend excursion into upstate New York, we stopped for lunch at a small town called Binghamton. It was an unremarkable town, in which