Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Personal on Feb 25th, 2010
In my last post, I mentioned a new term I learned (Man words) to refer to profanity. Profanity is a regular topic of conversation in my house since my four year old daughter wants to expand her vocabulary and gobbles up new words and reuses them as soon as possible. And since I have a [...]
Posted in Personal, Writing/Reading on Feb 18th, 2010
Last night I sat at the Whatcom Writers and Publishers monthly meeting – at the speaker’s table. This usually happens because I’m not paying attention, not because I need to sit at that table. Two of the women I think are funny and fabulous were there and holding a place for me. Weren’t they kind?
I [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Feb 13th, 2010
I noticed recently something that doesn’t work for me as a reader that I didn’t think about as a writer: flashbacks or other devices that rearrange story time. An example, first chapter is X years before inciting incident, in order to set up a character with a given history. The rest for the story is [...]