Writing Weirdly – When You aren’t exactly a plotser or a pantser
carriejonesbooks While I was at Vermont College my first semester, one of the teachers, Alison McGhee, mentioned off-handedly that when she wrote one of her many brilliant, amazing books she wrote…
February 2019
Weird Things About Us
This week we’re pretty low-key chill with an off-format podcast about the weird things about us Basically, we answer some of our listener’s questions. We forgot the hardest one, which…
When You Don’t Have to Say Anything – The Magic of Step Dads and Living From Love Not Fear
It would have been so much easier for my tired dad to leave those girls at their homes, for me not to have a birthday party. He had an out.…
Basil-Tomato Creamy Pasta for Valentines Day
As many of you know, I’m trying to get the man who lives in this house to eat less meat. Important note: He hates tomatoes, but you can disguise them…
Writing Tip Wednesday Scene Structure is Sexy
A lot of times we fiction writers get a little (cough) a lot obsessed with character, which makes sense, right? Characters are sexy. They’re these fake humans that we get…