Programmer, Writer, Mom
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 [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Jan 14th, 2010
I picked up Misa Ramirez’s first book in her Lola Cruz Mystery Series: Living the Vida Lola. The book was suggested on a “Like Janet” list. I was doubly excited to read it when I realized Misa Ramirez had an article in the most recent RWA magazine about marketing plans for writers: “How to Write [...]
Posted in Writing/Reading on Jan 7th, 2010
In three days, I picked up and finished Lost Light by Michael Connelly. I read it because it was a NYTBS, says so right on the spine. I’ve been working on the subplot of my own first story so I paid close attention to his subplots.
Subplots can build story or character or both. The better [...]