Programmer, Writer, Mom
Posted in Writing/Reading on Apr 11th, 2010
This week’s books added to my TBR pile include: A note about this list: any genre, any writer, any good recommendation. The Egg and I by Betty MacDonald: A wonderful post by Robin Agnew over at Hey, There’s A Dead Guy in the Living Room Interpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri: Referenced in The Scene [...]
Posted in Personal, Writing/Reading on Mar 14th, 2010
This could be a true story. My two-year old son and I were getting on the bus for our return trip home from the mall. I asked him to sit right there in front, close behind the driver, then dug in my pocket for the quarters and put them in the slot. When I turned [...]
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 [...]