Category Archives: writing

Sometimes – when I’m walking or showering or folding the laundry – a phrase begins to rotate in my head. Subconsciously, words pull into an almost sentence and play three-card monte. Punctuation joins the party; commas insert themselves while periods delete. Verbs disappear to create powerful auditory punches. Ellipses and em dashes decide the pauses.Continue reading “Playing with words”

Yesterday, I finished the draft of my middle grade novel. It’s a little over 19,000 words with 20 chapters. It’s the single longest thing I’ve ever written, and I anticipate that it will get a little longer by the time I finish revising. I don’t know everything it needs yet or how many revisions itContinue reading “A Draft”