MFA at 65? Mary B. Kurtz tells us why
Writing is a lifelong practice. Well, for some of us, it is. We spend our whole lives trying to capture something -- many things --everything -- in stories, novels, poems, [...]
Walking through the words
How we write: Reflections on writing, walking, and words. I write to discover and I walk to explore. Walking, I've found, helps me see things in a new way. Walking [...]
The power of Setting in fiction
I'm reading Birds Without Wings, by Louis de Bernieres -- a novel I chose partly because I enjoyed Corelli’s Mandolin and partly because the particular setting is one I know [...]
Beyond Research: Creating Verisimilitude in Historical Fiction
Here are a few of the slides from my power point outline, Beyond Research, shared at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer's spring Genre Con, May 14, at Table Mountain Inn [...]
The Brain Storm of Words
In the last two posts I shared an important part of my writing process, the initial “brainstorm” or uninhibited first draft. I actually posted the unedited beginnings of a speech [...]