Caught up in the struggles of writing a novel? Frustrated by the blinking cursor? Fighting with blank pages, soggy plots, or on-strike characters? If you’d like to regain–or, perhaps, find for the first time–your joy in writing, why not learn How to Think Sideways from established novelist and well-loved writing instructor Holly Lisle? She’s taught…
Not every city has a mountain in its midst that doubles as a park with hiking trails and as a 360 overlook accessible by car, but Victoria, BC, Canada, does. It’s Mount Douglas, more commonly known as Mount Doug. The Mount Doug Park starts on the east side of Vancouver Island and includes the summit…
Once upon a time I decided to learn to write novels. I discovered that there were a lot of “how to write” books out there that weren’t all that helpful. When I discovered two books by Nancy Kress, however, I began to wrap my brain around the process. I reviewed both books for Vision: A…
On Wednesday I flew into Dallas for the 2012 ACFW Conference. This year we’re staying in the lovely Hyatt Regency near the Dallas-Fort Worth airport. No sooner did I arrive than I was whisked away by friends and fellow clients of my agent, Joyce Hart, for a group dinner in nearby Grapevine. I’d met a…
Guest Post by Krista Phillips I love it when people come to me and say, “WOW! You wrote a book? How do you do that??” For that matter, i was the same way when I started out. The thought of filling all those pages with words that were coherent and that people actually wanted to…
A couple of weeks ago some fellow bloggers and I discussed doing some fun blogging together. Someone came up with the idea of a progressive interview. What is that, you ask? Well, we each thought up a question and posted it in our Facebook group. Then we all answered each others’ questions. Today each of…