by marciadmin | Jan 21, 2022 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Covid and Contemporary Stories How are you dealing with the COVID pandemic in your contemporary novels/short stories? Not as a political statement or polarizing pro/con mask stance, but the way the COVD virus effects the day-to-day lives of your characters and appears...
by marciadmin | Dec 18, 2021 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
How do your family experiences translate into writing scenes? Robin asked a difficult question this month. Honestly, I don’t think my family experiences have entered into any of my writing scenes. At least, not consciously. When I think about it, though, in my...
by marciadmin | Nov 20, 2021 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Flawed or evil characters, Round Robin, November 20, 2021 Flawed or evil characters inhabit a number of my books. Although I don’t depend on such characters to move the plot forward for every story, they are required for some of them. It all depends on the story, what...
by marciadmin | Sep 17, 2021 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
This month, Robin wants to know what other genres I write besides novels and why. When Robin first posed this subject, I wondered what other genres there were besides nonfiction and, of course, memoirs, which are, technically, nonfiction, as well, depending on how...
by marciadmin | Jul 17, 2021 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Deleted Scenes Apparently, baking chocolate chip cookies occupied my mind last night instead of writing this post. LOL Well, to be fair, I’ve been thinking about those cookies for days now, and, even though my constant discussion of deleted scenes is what prompted...
by marciadmin | Jun 18, 2021 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Round Robin—Plot problems and failures, June 2021 It’s that time of the month again where I actually talk about writing. And you can thank Robin for that. I know my blog has been taken over with swimming, but I really do write and edit. LOL The swimming ones are...
