I enjoy writing characters. I also enjoy watching people so I can make those characters feel like real people. If you've never people-watched, try it. Go find a bench in a mall, or sit in a parking lot and watch people enter and exit an establishment. Go to the grocery store an wander. How do … Continue reading People Watching
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Badly Writing
Ever read something, say a post on a forum for writers, and been shocked at the bad grammar and lack of sentence structure? I am. A lot more than I should be. If you want to write, you need to know how words work. You need to know how grammar works. That “txt” speak doesn’t … Continue reading Badly Writing
A Note on Persistence and Optimism
This past February, I lost a self-published adult fiction contest. There were only sixty-six entries, and Devil's Blood didn't even make it into the top twenty. Want to know how I felt? Awful. Dreadful. Worthless. A failure. Hopeless. Like a old sack of potatoes not good enough for anything but the garbage dump. It took … Continue reading A Note on Persistence and Optimism
Beatrice B. Morgan 