Endowing Your Characters with Traits to Solve Story Tension #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
The characters you create need to be given certain knowledge or abilities in order to solve the story tension. Whether characters need to conquer …
Insecure Writers Want to Know: Of all the genres you read and write, which is your favorite to write in and why?
I love to read both memoir and fiction. I enjoy discovering the insight provided by the memoirist when she makes her point in the slice of life story she is …
Take Time to Enjoy Nature with Kids
This is a milkweed seedpod with wishies. The old adage “the only constant in life is change” is never more present than in nature. Children should witness nature changing …
Make Your Characters Vulnerable #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
I’m 100 pages into my memoir about attending college as a mother of five and at the point where I’ve won a scholarship to the University of Pennsylvania and am …
Some Useful Tips When Camping with Kids
Notice the small sturdy lamp on the deck. It has a nightlight. My family didn’t start right off with a month-long camping excursion. Not with five kids in tow. …
Insecure Writers Want to Know: What was an early experience where you learned that language had power?
For me, it was simple. I was a communications and English major at college. This particular community college didn’t have a journalism degree at the time. Once I became …
Chicken Soup for the Soul Mom Knows Best #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
My mother has been my guiding light all my life. She believed in me when I didn’t. She told me that I could accomplish anything I put my mind to. …
Insecure Writers Want to Know: If you could use a wish to help write one chapter in your book, which would it be?
Now there’s a complicated question! I guess if I could only have one place in my college memoir where something magical could help me write it, it would be …
Moro Rock in Sequoia National Park, California
What do you do when you get nervous? When I get nervous, I laugh. A lot! And my whole family knows it. They also know that I’m a bit …
What’s the Cost to Your Protagonist to Accomplish a Goal? #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
Everyone makes choices. People are a sum of the choices they’ve made in life. But each choice usually costs them something. Think about your own personal choices. Are you married? …