Squiders, I have lost my voice. This has made my normal wrangling of puppies and small, mobile ones more infuriating than usual. But, anyway, I’ve got a full household, so I’m going to declare a hiatus here at the blog
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 2)
Sorry it’s a bit late, squiders! Also, I haven’t started wrapping Christmas presents yet and aaaaaahhhhhhhh So, last week we talked about common issues with Point of View, and today we’re going to be looking at a specific, sneaky issue
Library Book Sale Finds: The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis
Hey, look, squiders! I actually picked a scifi novel out of the bunch for once! (Well, in actuality, I was talking to my grandmother about Connie Willis and the Oxford time travel novels because I’d seen Connie at MileHiCon and
Common Writing Mistakes: Point of View and Filtering (Part 1)
Happy Thursday, squiders! I’m doing #SFFPit over on Twitter today, so if you follow me there I apologize for the amount of pitch tweets you may or may not be seeing. Before we get going, I just want to talk
Introducing Jorge
I realized I never introduced you guys to Jorge. My sister likes to think she’s funny, so for my birthday (back in October), she got me a llama (or possibly an alpaca?) cookie jar. My first thought was “What the
Common Writing Mistakes: Tenses and Passive Voice
Hi, squiders! Today we’re going to talk about tenses and passive voice, since they tend to be related, and because this is a good segue from our grammatical issues into our storytelling issues. TenseĀ in this case refers to the form
Readalong Announcement: Dream Thief by Stephen R. Lawhead
Well, squiders, I’ve gone through my bookshelves and picked a book for us to try for our first stand-alone book readalong. (Of course, since I was looking for a standalone, I found a ton of duologies and trilogies, because that