Ten great blogs for writers

1.  A Writer’s Journey: Tips on everything from writing good villains to making time to write.  Excellent site!
2.  Creative Liberty: Creative development across all media; this month’s focus is on developing creative momentum.  Especially good for those of us who practice more than one art.
3.  Beanery Writers Weblog: Home of the Beanery Online Literary Magazine.  [...]

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Writing exercise: politics

When most people think about politics, they think of government policy, election campaigns, lobbying, and everything that involves the people who run the government.  Of course, politics encompasses more than just government.  Politics includes competition in the workplace, between family members, between members of any organization, even between friends.
It can be difficult to write about politics, however; [...]

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Writing Prompt: Embarrassment

I was talking with some friends at work yesterday about embarrassment.  Not just feeling mildly foolish, but the kind of embarrassment that makes you want to run and hide. The kind that makes you avoid certain people when you see them on the street.  The kind that comes back to you, years later, in the [...]

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Rediscovery Review: Possession

Possession: A Romance by A.S. Byatt (1990)
Roland Michell is a literary scholar who specializes in the work of one Victorian poet, Randolph Ash.  One day, while conducting research, he comes across a draft of a letter, written by Ash to an unknown woman, and for Roland, an obsession is born. 
Part literary romance, part epistolary novel, [...]

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Why fantasy?

I’m asked sometimes, particularly by professors at the university where I work, why I choose to write in the fantasy/speculative fiction genre.
It’s not an easy question to answer.  I like to read fantasy; I always have, ever since my sister gave me a full set of  The Chronicles of Narnia when I was in fourth [...]

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My progress, currently.

Well, my current project isn’t a novel (though I have one of those in the closet), but several stories I’d like to get out by the middle of August. Revisions and everything.
Wish me luck!

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Rediscovery Review: Solstice Wood

Solstice Wood by Patricia A. McKillip (2007)
Sylvia Lynn has spent most of her adult life avoiding going home, staying away from the dark, tangled woods that surround her family’s estate. But she feels an obligation to return to Lynn Hall for her grandfather’s funeral. While she’s there, she meets the Fiber Guild, a [...]

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