Follow the GPS: It Knows Where We Are!
When you plan an unfamiliar road trip with the family, how do you find your way? I’m sure we all agree that you need to know where you are …
Characters Look for Acceptance #AuthorToolboxBlogHop
Just as real people want to be accepted by others, either into various communities or accepted by one special person, so too do our characters wish to be accepted …
What personal traits have you written into your character(s)? Insecure Writers Want to Know
Memoir aside, the biggest traits I offer my characters are a love of nature and adventure. Now these traits can be good or bad for characters depending upon the …
Entertaining Kids When Camping in the Rain
Sometimes it can rain all week when you’re camping, and you can feel like moist potato chips: limp and yucky. But you don’t need to pack it all in and …
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 …