Tag: writing

  • All For the Love of Writing

    “In good time, I got cooked through and through. I became a writer.” Pamela S. Wight I joined a writing class Pamela S. Wight led, where she shared her love of creative writing’s sparks. She got us all up in flames. Thanks to Pamela for this guest post, a story of how she came to teach…

  • Love Safe, You Might Be the Vector

    Love Safe, You Might Be the Vector

    Infectious diseases we pass on to the people we love are painful tragedies. We are vectors. Sometimes we’re a vector for change, for good, but sometimes what we pass on is a virus that’s fatal – and one we didn’t even know we had. Dramatized in the Screen Actor’s Guild Award-winning “The Normal Heart”, in January…

  • Change 1 Thing for New Years

    What would it be, if you could change one thing in the New Year? This is a question I ask myself at the end or beginning of a year, before New Years, at birthdays too. My friends’ responses to the question this year ranged from the personal to the political, and even global: look in…

  • Creating an Antagonist – Lessons from the Theater

    Creating a character I know and love is one of the best parts of writing stories, as a book author. To understand a new character, I use a Script Work Outline, borrowed from theater studies. Script work requires actors to go deeper than the lines in a script, and to create a background life for…

  • Writing Brindle 24 – the Last Day in the Life of a Town after Fracking

    How is a book conceived? I would say, not alone – but together. Where does a new story come from? I think, from many people sharing their thoughts in a cloud of possibilities. Writing the book, Brindle 24, I was inspired by the brave people who shared their experiences about the impact of gas drilling on their…