WRITING ANALYSIS CHECKLIST taken from Jack Bickham‘s TACTICAL ANALYSIS CHECKLIST originally published in Writer’s Digest but altered to reflect my own writing prejudices MA BACKGROUND Do your major characters seem to have sprung into the story from nowhere, or have you created a sense of…
TAKE JOY Writing is wretchedness layered with joys. A writer–call her Emily Austin–is restless. She has books to read, a garden to work, friends to visit, perhaps a family to love, perhaps an office to run. Still, she is edgy, uncomfortable, vaguely unhappy. Her fingers…
Bodie Parkhurst is doing it again: writing wonderful books. Her longtime friend, known on her blog as The House Leroy, passed away, and she memorialized him, under the name of Sherry Wachter, with one of the most beautiful human photo/text book you’ll ever see, THE…
