Filters–Everybody Uses Them. Use this to enhance your characters.
Everyone has filters that affect how we perceive things. Figuring out yours can help you figure out your character’s, and that helps you portray them more accurately.
Writing and Writing about Writing
Everyone has filters that affect how we perceive things. Figuring out yours can help you figure out your character’s, and that helps you portray them more accurately.
I love using Scrivener for all my writing, as you well know. However, it took me a while to find a good process for sharing writing with my critique group, and it’s a bit fiddly, so I thought I would share. Now, with critique groups, it is usually not feasible nor practical to simply share … Read more
I know basically two kinds of new writers. Those who believe they suck, and those who believe they are awesome. I know a LOT more of the first kind than the second kind, which is actually kind of nice because their writing is usually a lot better. That may seem a little ironic on the … Read more
So I’m reading this book right now (well…audiobook…but still) and I stopped about four days ago because I started to realize what the major conflict is probably going to be, and it makes me SO MAD that it’s going to happen that I just haven’t been able to do it right now. Like, if I … Read more
Depression big time sucks. I talk too much. Overexplain. Egad. I just got a copy of Calvin by Martine Leavitt. It has to do with Calvin and Hobbes and mental illness and stuff so it looks really interesting. I’ve been kind of trying to read Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin the last … Read more