date time-to-read.short-label The FWA Saves 2020 2020 unleashed a global pandemic, wildfires, hurricanes, and many bad DIY haircuts, but on Oct. 17, a nice thing happened. I won a gold aw...
date time-to-read.short-label Writing Prompt: What’s Your Most Cherished Childhood Place? My friend Alan as a young boy, standing on his uncle's shoulders in Brazil, ready to leap into his future, with many cousins in the backg...
fullDate time-to-read.short-label Writing Prompt: You See a Body of Water ... Is it a freshwater pond? If so, is the water stagnant and murky, or clear, with light dancing on its surface? Maybe the body of water is ...
fullDate time-to-read.short-label Me Write Pretty One Day Whenever I’m learning a new skill – let’s say, how to properly document a sea turtle nest, surf tiny waves, or make toast without burning...
fullDate time-to-read.short-label The 13 Moons of Writer's Block “It’s just that my protagonist doesn’t want her brother to die,” I told a traveling companion at a café in Kathmandu. “I think it might b...
fullDate time-to-read.short-label Plot Goddess Invents QVC Queen The struggle was real. After reading my forthcoming novel, City in a Forest, an editor whose opinion I trust (Kim Sheeter) pointed out th...
fullDate time-to-read.short-label Epic Snake Orgy Cures Writer's Block In my third novel, Seeing Gethin, my protagonist’s brother is crazy about snakes—brown, red, spotted, striped, harmless, venomous, or inv...
