Focus on Non-Fiction: The Interview
My first non-fiction writing assignment required an interview. I'd read plenty of interviews, but never conducted one. Fortunately for me I'd recently attended a writing conference where I happened to sit in on a class about interviews. Talk about serendipitous! There's more to an interview than just sitting down and [...]
Book Review: Come to the Table by Neta Jackson
Kat Davies is suddenly wondering if her good deed was a bad idea. Kat may be new in her faith, but she’s embraced the more radical implications of Christianity with reckless abandon. She invited Rochelle—a homeless mother—and her son to move in the apartment she shares with two other housemates. [...]
Crazy Horse’s Advice to Writers By James R. (Jim) Callan
This summer, while vacationing through the upper mid-west, we had the opportunity to visit the Crazy Horse Monument. Located not far from Mount Rushmore, it is being developed on the same massive scale as the monuments to the four great U.S. Presidents. When finished, The Crazy Horse Monument will be [...]
Reading Reviews: Writing the Breakout Novel by Donald Maass
Practical guidance for first-time and already published novelists looking to go beyond simply publishing a novel and writing the breakout novel. Using his 20+ years of experience as a literary agent, Maass explains the basic elements of the breakout novel, including: - Escalating Stakes - Real People vs. Larger-Than-Life Figures [...]
Blogging Basics: Test It First
Photo Credit My big sister is a SAHM (stay-at-home-mom) who cooks from scratch, then blogs about it. She shares her own recipes or ones that she picked up from other blogs. These days she's pretty good about how she posts her recipes. In earlier days, however, it wasn't [...]