Approaches to Writing, College Student Writing, Entrepreneurship, Online Classes, Recommended Authors and Books, Teaching Writing, The Business of Writing, Uncategorized
I’m excited to be going for three days of Ice House Entrepreneurship Programs Facilitator Training this week. So what’s that, you ask? Okay, for starters: entrepreneurship, noun: the activity of setting up a business or businesses, taking on financial...
Approaches to Writing, California Central Valley Writers, Fiction to Read, House of Eire, Ireland, Irish Novels, June Gillam, Online Classes, Recommended Authors and Books, Rewards of Writing, Sacramento Kings, Scrivener, Suspense, Uncategorized
Please leave a comment here if you are a writer in California’s Central Valley. I would love to hear about what you are writing at the moment or have just released. Related to my House of Eire, just out this summer, it was a surprise to find the interview I did...
Approaches to Writing, How to Create Characters, Online Classes, Plots, Point of View, Recommended Authors and Books, Rewards of Writing, Uncategorized, Writing FictionIn4colors, Writing Groups, Writing Workshops
Guest Blog by a student in Delta College’s English 49B, Creative Writing Fiction, Fall 2015. In June Gillam’s class I learned tools I am certain will help me in the future. Her method of teaching involves a lot of group work and constructive criticism from one’s...
Fiction to Read, Online Classes
Starting August 17, for Fall 2015, I’m offering To register, go to Delta College. The theme of the course is “Choices” – choices authors have made (biographical and cultural approaches), choices characters have made (formalist, close readings of text), and...
Approaches to Writing, How to Create Characters, Online Classes, The Business of Writing
In Writing Fiction, Janet Burroway notes that characters must be “interesting, believable, and engaging.” Writers need to make readers feel invested in what characters go through. The two most basic characters are a protagonist and an antagonist. In a nutshell, the...
