I love playing with simple photo editing software. All of those fabulous colors were in my photo just waiting for me to draw them out–slough off a bit of brightness, delete a bit of shadow, redefine the contrast and saturate the hues. Now, to apply the same principal (drawing out the good stuff) to myContinue reading “Revision: Exploring my characters’ motivations”
Category Archives: Revision
Finding the Balance: Critique and Creativity
In a way I’m lucky. I grew up in a hyper-critical environment and still chose to perform in public. However, criticism gets old and it sticks in the psyche more than praise, which, sadly, is part of human nature. To be a writer, especially in the world of anonymous online comments, we have to prepareContinue reading “Finding the Balance: Critique and Creativity”
Time Warp – recognizing flaws in the timeline
First, I want to thank Sherri Ann DeLost for inspiring me, by actually doing a storyboard. I hadn’t worried that my story timelines wouldn’t be securely matched in my mind as I wrote, until recently. One of my characters was lingering in his thoughts and being told he may have to spend some time inContinue reading “Time Warp – recognizing flaws in the timeline”
Experience Writing 