I learned a simple yet valuable lesson within the first chapter of Francine Prose’s book, Reading Like a Writer. It seems so simple, like something I should have realized already. Something so logical, like the exhale follows an inhale. Here is the text in her book that stuck out to me, knocking me over with... Continue Reading →
To Kill a Mockingbird: Book Review
To Kill a Mockingbird, By Harper Lee Everyone I mentioned this book to was shocked I had never read it. So many of us were forced to read it in grade school, though I honestly cannot remember reading it. Maybe I watched the movie and faked it, this is a very good possibility. This book... Continue Reading →
Ready Player One: Book Review
Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline: Currently a major motion picture in theatres now, I wanted to read the book before seeing the movie. Based in the future, everyone is addicted to virtual reality and no one knows anyone else’s true identity. A game is created by a single man and everyone is trying to... Continue Reading →
Show AND Tell: A Beginning Writers Discovery
Jump right in, just go with the flow! Advice that I have heard from other writers, as well as just a generalization about my MO (modus operandi). Unfortunately, my creative process is a bit more outlined. It’s my style, so bear with me while I make observations and have those AH HA! moments that turn... Continue Reading →
Three Acts of Storytelling
I am taking a class called “Write Fiction Like a Pro” through ed2go. It’s been really helpful for a beginning writer like myself, and I am getting feedback from the professor which is also more helpful than trying to read a book about – writing a book. Below is what the class outlines as these... Continue Reading →