Programmer, Writer, Mom
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 to [...]
Posted in Personal on Mar 11th, 2010
Wayne Berry is guest posting today for me — a different kind of post than his usual stuff over here.
Four Year Old: “Why do I have to scrap my plate in the garbage can?”
Me:
If we don’t scrap our plates and we leave them on the counter mice will come up from our basement and [...]
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 [...]