As I wade through Weather Vane (working title, folks, working title) one more time, scraping and polishing and generally making Simon a more dynamic and interesting fellow, I am very aware of the stories impatiently kicking at stones by the side of the road. When...
One of the fun parts of creating a fictional character is considering what he’ll look like and who could play them in the movie version. I have always thought that John Cusack looks like Simon, the protagonist of Weather Vane. He’s handsome, but not...
I’m freshly back from a four-day writers’ conference in Niagara Falls and everything looks different. It’s almost like the way I would feel coming back to the west after six months in India. I’ve changed and therefore so has the world in which...
I’m on my way to the Algonkian Writers’ Conference to learn some things, perhaps, and have the opportunity to present myself before those who would judge. As I scan our workbook I am aware of the traditional approach to novel writing that the organizers...
In my writing community there’s a buzz about the upcoming Whispered Words Anthology prose competition. I’ve entered stories for their last two years’ competitions with disheartening results. (Although one story that didn’t make it through the first tier judging found...
