I Don’t Understand Lipstick Tubes
carriejonesbooks Back before COVID-19, I went to a board meeting on a Monday night for a local non-profit. The people sitting around the table are passing around a tube of lipstick.…
stereotypes
Not All Politicians are the Same
Okay. As you know I have a big problem with stereotypes. This isn’t just about stereotypes about gender or race or ability or sexual orientation or religion or class or…
Maine and People aren’t miserable and tough. We’re beautiful and a whole lot more.
I’m staying at a campground in Maine and the people in the campsite next to me aren’t super talkative, but when they do talk, their voices are loud. So loud.…
Writing Heroes Who Don’t Suck
Who do you root for? In your own life, this question is easy. We root for ourselves. A lot of the time we root for our friends, our family. We…
Three Ways To Create Characters W/ Epilepsy and Not Make Them Stereotypes
Don’t let one attribute define the character. An author can’t make a character’s one attribute be that she has seizures any more than the author can make that character’s one…