Slices of Stories
Eavesdropping on slices of life stories [...]
Meet Eloi
A character sketch about Eloi [...]
Meet Jordan Binak
August 2, 2017 Meet Jordan Binak We’re going to meet another fictional character today. This one was created over 20 years ago! Often when authors create fictional characters, they pull from themselves and add strengths they want. If you study Charles Dickens, you learn that the character of David Copperfield [...]
DVD Books
July 23, 2017 DVD Books I’m one of these people who loves real books. The smell, the weight, the way my finger anxiously waits behind one edge of a page while my eyes finish it quickly – I’m immersed in the writer’s world and feel like the book surrounds me. [...]
Meet Joseph
July 13, 2017 Meet Joseph Jaquline’s favorite series of stories right now is The Devonians. She loves the short, easy to read, stories with “bright colors” (Christina illustrates the covers in bold crayon) and “big words” (the lettering is large print). Each of the Devonians stories follows a different child [...]
Creating Darren
July 6, 2017 Creating Darren One of the neatest parts about writing (for me, anyway) is creating people. Maybe I take it too far, but I like to have elaborate backstories for everyone. (For example: a character with a small part in “Web of Deception” has fifteen pages of notes [...]
Mythical Horses
June 27, 2017 Mythical Horses They say that in fiction, we don’t really create anything new, we draw on our memory of things we have seen to create something new: Like the Sevokloi in Web of Deception – they are like squids with reptile bodies (leather) adapted for a desert [...]
Capturing Places
June 24, 2017 Captured Places Have you ever walked through a place you loved so much you drew scale drawings of it and built models? I love architecture. I plan each building and area – in most of my stories, even down to the plants and what color flowers are [...]
Question For Inspiration
Why do you say "curiosity killed the cat?" [...]
Research for Caleb
June 8, 2017 Caleb I love to write historical fiction. Historical fiction is fiction (a made-up story) set in a historical setting. It can be following an actual historical figure, about a historical figure, place, or event, or a made-up story in a real time in history. Writing historical fiction [...]