I didn’t know how and I’m still feeling my way in my rubber boots, but the Twitter writing community has… Read more Putting on the Wellies 7: Twitter
Category: READING FOR WRITERS BLOG
FIVE STAR: WHO DOES IT BEST? Emotional Connection
I’d nominate Laini Taylor for one of the spots, particularly in the YA fantasy STRANGE THE DREAMER, for her ability… Read more FIVE STAR: WHO DOES IT BEST? Emotional Connection
POINT OF VIEW 3: Omniscient
A beautiful rendition of an omniscient narrator who is also an actor within the story is to be found in… Read more POINT OF VIEW 3: Omniscient
Putting on the Wellies Again: 6
How much time is wasted researching agents and wish lists and twitter-stalking fave writers and wishing for facility with one-liner… Read more Putting on the Wellies Again: 6
FIVE STAR SHAKE UPS
LEOPARD SAYS: SHUSH. I’M READING!! Just finished reading Carlo Rovelli’s THE ORDER OF TIME (translated by Erica Segre and… Read more FIVE STAR SHAKE UPS
FIVE STAR SPOOF
I wish wish wish I’d had this idea–and I could have. Didn’t I love Seth Grahame-Smith’s PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES and ABRAHAM… Read more FIVE STAR SPOOF
FIVE STAR: WHO DOES IT BEST? Childhood
A highly subjective rating of common themes in fiction: Topic A: ADULT AND CHILD INTERACTION (Adult) Author Liane Moriarty… Read more FIVE STAR: WHO DOES IT BEST? Childhood
Putting on the Wellies 3: a picture is worth a thousand words
PINTEREST is a couch-potato way of putting on the research wellies. Here is a lookalike for my original African character… Read more Putting on the Wellies 3: a picture is worth a thousand words
Putting on the Wellies 2
Wellies-on-the-ground research in Morocco for the exotic historical fantasy: THE ALBATROSS AND THE LION.
FIVE STAR “I PERSISTED” READS
I had to start Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH twice, and the second read was super engaging! The same goes for… Read more FIVE STAR “I PERSISTED” READS