Welcome to my new blog, which now includes content from many of the blogs I’ve created over the years. You can now also access content via category from this one page instead of having to search for my individual blogs, which were scattered over various platforms and websites.
Kate Fall has a great post about how to create a successful “unreliable narrator” in middle grade fiction on the MiG Writers Blog. An excerpt: The trick is to present both what is really going on and what the character is thinking, and to have some reason why the character sees the . . .
Julie Duffy is a writer and the host of StoryADay.org, a creative writing challenge held in May every year. — I’ve just finished up StoryADay May, in which a bunch of writers sat down every day and wrote, well, a story a day. It’s a real challenge and each year it teaches me something . . .
Thanks to Bruce Macintosh for pointing me to this article about squirrel-Dalek hybrids. 🙂
I’ve posted a cartoon caption challenge over on Writer Unboxed!
Ok, I gave up on the idea of staying offline in the mornings. Reason: Because of my Market Watch column for Writersmarket.com, I need to surf the Web for publishing industry info each morning. I tried to make notes of stuff that would be good tweet and blog post material . . .
To the left: my comic for Writer Unboxed this past weekend. You can see a bigger version by clicking on the comic and going to Writer Unboxed (a GREAT site for writers, by the way, if you haven’t already visited). I have found this pattern to be increasingly the norm for me . . .
(Above: I just got my very first NY Public Library card, yay!) Apologies for the lack of posts recently. I’m in NYC at the moment, and don’t have reliable Internet access where I’m staying. Visited Surtex and the National Stationery Show (I have a weakness for paper and office supplies) . . .
Jo Karaplis lives and breathes books. During the day, she works for a children’s publishing house in Toronto. In the evenings, she’s usually either reading a book or working on her own. Jo’s also a member of the Toronto Middle Grade/YA Writer Group (Torkidlit), which is how I met her. Jo’s website: http://www.joannakaraplis.com/ . . .
Above: Neil Gaiman and his kitty, Oz. Ok, so this blog has zero practical info, but how can you resist photos of writers and their feline friends? Check out Writers and Kitties.