Happy birthday to me! Today, I turn 66, officially with both feet in Little Old Lady territory. ~MomGoth straightens her cameo brooch and checks the level of the elderberry wine~   I’m celebrating by hosting a pair of writers who caught my attention by finding…

This sounds like it’s about me, but, like everything in the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed world, it’s about writing. Charlie’s birthday was yesterday. Mine is coming up. Charlie has been getting birthday cards all week. I haven’t. It isn’t that nobody likes me. Charlie’s cards are from…

So you have this character who has a goal. That’s what stories are about, isn’t it? A character with a goal? And obstacles to overcome in order to reach that goal? But maybe you don’t want the pursuit of that goal to be relentless. That’s…