From as far back as I can remember, I have always been an avid reader. When I was in junior high school (I missed going to middle school by...

Something that came up in my writer's group once  was the question all fiction writers face: when and if should you kill off a character...

Characters' names can have meaning in stories. I try to maintain a pattern to naming characters, when I think it's important to the ...

If you met me, you would probably think I'm perfectly normal.  But inside, I do have a quirk that makes me a tad different from most fol...

This post on Tor's website about J.R.R. Tolkien  and how he developed Éowyn of Rohan   as a character made me think about how technolo...

I was the third of four children, and when my mom got stressed and wanted to yell at one of us, she would often yell all our names instead o...

As someone who was born smack in the middle of the 20th century, I know first hand that the pace of change has accelerated. When I compare ...

I consider myself primarily a storyteller. I've chosen the written word as a way to tell my stories. Or perhaps I mean the written word ...

This is my entry in the writer's "blog hop," also known as a blog tour. I was invited in by my friend and fellow writer Rosema...

I have belonged to a writer's group for well over a decade. Sometimes called critique groups, writer's groups are one of the most po...

Is it really July already? How did that happen? I am deep into the revisions stage of Saronna's Gift . When I give a manuscript to my wr...

When people ask me why I write, I say it's because I was born a storyteller. I have a tin ear and two left feet, so music and dance were...

I got a wonderful email the other day, from a reader who was requesting the free story I offer via this blog. It was the kind of email auth...