My kids and I are reading the Harry Potter books for the first time. One of the techniques J.K. Rowling uses again and again is this: something is happening, characters are reacting to it, but we readers don’t quite know what is going on. We are catching up. The reason I know this happens again […]
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Sunday April 14, the Book Writing World will be hosting its first annual dinner reading at the Saturn Café in Berkeley. Come join us for great food, better words and writing community.
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This afternoon (Tuesday, Dec. 3) at 4 p.m. Pacific/ 7 p.m. Eastern, I will be holding open office hours on WebEx to give folks a chance to learn about BWW courses, talk to me about your writing, and figure out which class is right for you . . . Come talk writing. Tell me about
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There’s something funny about the way I write. I always start with a situation that, really, with a little patience and common sense, anyone could navigate their way out of it. For example, let’s say I have a character named Rebecca, who is on her way to a very important meeting, the one that will
NaNoWriMo is underway. For those of you still chugging along – Congratulations! It’s a huge thing to do. It’s funny that we need an outside structure sometimes to make us do what we burn to do. Rather than bemoan the fact, I’m glad that there are so many wonderful structures out in the world to
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Just a quick note today to remind everyone who is whirling through day two of NanoWrimo that the best way to win Nano and have something worth reading later is to plan and the best way to plan is to know your character. I think you can’t know too much about your characters. Some authors
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I have just sent my novel draft out to my writing group. Right now, I am in that blissful space between a sense of completion and the harrowing realization that I have so much more work to do. This is where the idea of an asymptote comes in. An asymptote is a line that draws
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In honor of Elizabeth’s Birthday, enjoy a treat on us. Now until Oct 31, sign up for her writing craft class for just $295 for the rest of 2012! PLEASE NOTE: Monday class, in Berkeley, is full. Sign up here for Tuesday ONLINE class, 4 – 6 p.m. Pacific/ 7 – 9 p.m. Eastern
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I’ve been listening to The Wiz lately. Watching clips on YouTube. I recently had an idea for an Oz movie or novel I’d like to do, but as I did research, I found that legally, even though the Oz books are in the public domain, when it comes to film, you can’t do anything that
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I was recently reading an article – okay, skimming the pull quotes during a quiet moment from the kids – which I can’t find right now online, but which had a couple of interesting things to say about literacy and how our testing for it has limited our understanding of what it means to be
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