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”
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Creating a Marketing Plan for Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise
After publishing Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise, I focused my marketing plan exclusively on creating an internet presence. I created author pages, joined good reads, sent out email announcements and created a Gator McBumpypants page on my website. Now, I feel ready to expand my marketing plan. To do that I need to knowContinue reading “Creating a Marketing Plan for Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise”
Changing my approach to posting
Hi everyone, I think I’ve figured out a better way to share everything I’m learning in my writing life. So far, I’ve had trouble keeping up with a weekly blog because I’ll have ideas during the week, but when I finally sit down to write, I’m overwhelmed by how many things are happening in myContinue reading “Changing my approach to posting”
Busy Writer’s Life Update: Gator McBumpypants 2 and searching for an agent
I can’t seem to stick to my goal of a weekly blog, but I’ll keep trying. However, while I’ve been neglecting this blog, my writing life has been very busy indeed. First, I’ve finished the text and taken the pictures for the second book in my Gator McBumpypants series. I’m pretty sure I’ll stick withContinue reading “Busy Writer’s Life Update: Gator McBumpypants 2 and searching for an agent”
To finish what I begin – Tips for finishing a draft
With all of the kids spending as much time in the lake as they could before heading back to school, I must have become nostalgic for a moment because I suddenly remembered something from my blue bird (tiny campfire girls) days — “to finish what I begin.” It really stuck in my head so IContinue reading “To finish what I begin – Tips for finishing a draft”
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”
Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity
It’s almost time for me to print out the rough draft of my novel, to read through the whole thing with fresh eyes, as if I just brought it home from the bookstore. But first, I have a few more goals to accomplish: I WILL finish reading Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (I was bornContinue reading “Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity”
Exploring the Senses – Finale: Using sensory information in your writing
Through this series on exploring the senses we (you and I) have explored all the major senses and more. We’ve experimented with how sensual stimuli trigger memories that can inspire writing and played with different ways to add sensory detail to our writing. Now, I want to talk about when and how to use thisContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Finale: Using sensory information in your writing”
Exploring the Senses – The Sixth Sense
Though everyone agrees on the five major senses, neurologists and perception researchers believe there are more. Some think the main senses should be broken into sub-genres. Others believe we have many sensory cell types leading to other senses including: balance, pain, temperature, time, body part location, and sensing internal organs. However, when we talk aboutContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – The Sixth Sense”
Exploring the Senses – Touch
Touch is a sense most of us take for granted – until we’re lying on satin sheets, or picking glass and gravel out of a knee – but touch is sensed through the skin which is the largest organ of our human bodies. The sense of touch is based on detection of mechanical energy, orContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Touch”
Experience Writing 