It happened again last night, the dreaded question. What is your novel about? Every writer knows the sudden panic that courses through the veins when someone asks what her current Work-In-Progress is about. It isn’t that we don’t know what our writing is about, and it isn’t that we don’t want to divulge. Believe me;… Continue reading What is Wicket Lake about?
There's a funny thing that happens to every fiction writer at least once in her lifetime. Her carefully crafted fictional character decides he is going to behave in a way the author did not anticipate. For all her plotting, all her planning and outlining and poring over journeys and encounters and goals, she cannot force… Continue reading Creating Characters
