From the Beginning
Welcome back! If you are a writer, a wannabe writer, or just someone who likes to know how writers think, this is the place for you. In upcoming posts we'll talk about how stories are born, how ideas translate into words, and how words bring thoughts to life -- among many, many other things. I hope you'll check in often. This blog has been dark for--hard to believe!--9 years, and a lot has changed since then. It's not that I didn't want to reboot it, it's just that I didn't know where to start. And the longer I put it off, the harder it became to find that starting point. Kind of like writing a novel. So you've got this great idea for a book. You more or less know what happens in your story, you've chosen the characters who will tell your story, and you know what you want to say. But where do you start? As a general rule, there are three places to open your book: at the beginning, the middle and the end. It's up to you to decide whi