Oh, please, just let him die. Let the Doctor get the TARDIS, sans a companion, into some unimaginable confluence of positive and negative energy, or, let there be some huge mashup of time and space, or, take him back to the beginning of the universe [because you’ve already done the end of it] or plop…
face blind
Standing at the registration table at a writing conference I overhear famous author #1 say to famous author #2, “I’m face blind. I can’t remember a person to save my soul.” Prosopagnosia, also called face blindness, is an impairment in the recognition of faces. According to FaceBlind.org with research centers at Dartmouth College, Harvard and University…
make every word count
In HOW I LIVE NOW, Meg Rosoff does that. The book is sparse, stark, and so is the topic and detail. Yet, without fail, we are in the moment. It is a stunning accomplishment that. And, that it is about dystopian times when we have not only long stories but trilogies filling the booksellers shelves,…
LA SCBWI WowZer!
What I love about the international SCBWI conferences: I can attend. Just attend. I can go to all the keynotes, panels, breakouts, socials and extras I want. I AM NOT IN CHARGE! And that is awesome. I look for craft based presentations and wowzer! just sit and listen to keynotes. THEN I can also line up…
New Meanings
I think a lot about words. How they are used. How sentences come together. At a recent writer’s retreat, Jill Santopolo suggested that one of the ways to determine the voice of the character was through word choice. If my character says, “That’s totally cool!” You almost automatically think teenager. But if the character says, “That is…