Crafting Memorable Scenes in Fiction

I’m still buried and then some, so I am going to recycle an old post today that I actually looked up to read myself because I was thinking about some great scenes I had read and sifting through the common denominators of what makes a scene truly great....

Three Tips to Activate Your Writing

As I completed my judges’ forms for the The Sandy literary contest this past weekend, I had to examine why I usually knew after the first paragraph whether or not I was going to enjoy the story. And it wasn’t just the idea that grabbed me or made me...