Keeping Our Communities From Burning
carriejonesbooks This blog speaks about a violent event in my community where a kid was badly hurt. A few years ago, I was a newspaper editor, working out at the local…
2020
The World Needs More Lew Barnards
My dad died in 2013. It was his birthday yesterday. How It Went It is Thursday and an oncologist whose last name is Snow has just told my father that…
Show Us Don’t Tell Us, Baby.
So in writing one of the biggest tips that you start hearing starts in around third grade and it’s “SHOW DON’T TELL.” And it’s sound writing advice, but it’s pretty…
Don’t Look At Yourself Naked After You’ve Had a Burrito: Writer Insecurity Syndrome
Awhile ago, I had this nasty bad cold and when I was almost better, I tried to write and realized that everything I was writing was absolutely horrible and would…
Realistic Dialogue and Halloween Parties for Fourteen Year Olds
One of my favorite criticisms is when people say to writers, “Your dialogue is not realistic.” The reason this cracks me up is because have you ever really listened to…