HOW TO CREATE LIVELY CHARACTERSWRITING TIP Photo Courtesy of Bob Dass I take improv classes at The Big Blue Door. Recently, we learned a game called, Present, Past, Future. The exercise gave me wonderful insight in how to create characters who hop off of the page. Here’s how it’s played. One person starts a scene […]
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TELLING A STORY CAN HELP YOU WRITE A STORY A few years ago, I found myself in the middle of a writing slump. All the short stories I sent out came back with a five-word rejection: Not Right For Our List. For a writer, those five words have the same effect as someone saying: “Are
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HOW TO SURVIVE REJECTION Photo Courtesy of Jakayla Toney I am an expert in the field of rejection. I stand before you today with exquisitely impressive rejection credentials. I’ve been rejected by The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, a top children’s book agency in California, and my first grade boyfriend, Walter Flemke, may he