To plot, or not to plot? It’s the perennial question writers everywhere eventually face. The internet is rife with articles…
Tag: writing tips
We’re sharing our best writing tips this month here on The Debutante Ball, and since this happens to coincide with…
There is quite a bit that was shed from the original manuscript of The Goddess Twins to what has resulted…
When I was in my undergrad program for fashion, I took my very first writing gig blogging for a recently…
In 2009, I left my job as a high school English teacher and ran right smack dab into the Great…
Missing my poetry-mom Lucille Clifton especially today. Here she is reading aloud a poem of hers that I love. Until I…
I spent a fair amount of my youth writing dense, novel-length, & character-driven fanfiction (henceforth referred to as fanfic) until…
The above quote from the inestimable Neil Gaiman is a lot of why I’ve had beta readers since my fanfic…
Our topic this week is first drafts, and let’s be honest: I am not a trained writer. I don’t…
I love this topic, because I know so much more about not writing than I do writing. Not writing is…
