Two Truths and One Lie:

Van Gogh was my "gateway drug" into the field of art history.
I have no idea how Cole knows that I'm ticklish behind the knees.  
Roger proposed on a Thursday afternoon.

POV:Third person limited, with the focus on my muse.  I do shift emphasis to also give insight and coverage of the motivations and thoughts of other ( Read more... )

So tell us about your hero's/protagonist's arc. Who do they start as? Who do they become? Have you ever started a story thinking it was about character A, only to realize the core of growth and transformation was happening over with character B, C, or D?

Prue goes to the Underworld entirely the dutiful sister, who at the same time does have the ( Read more... )

“If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.”
― Henry David Thoreau Walden

( The groundwork )

To what extent, if any, are your 'personal issues' present in your writing? Do you write to exorcise particular things that are bothering you? What parts of yourself do you put into your heroes? Your villains? What causes and themes that are important to you personally show up in your writing?

( Control and the Banal Enemy )

1. How often do you use  ( Read more... )

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. -- Eleanor Roosevelt

( A Place Called Hope )

We all have times when we are not at our best - we get sick, we get injured, we enter new situations we know nothing about.  Sometimes we need someone to look after us for a while.  And sometimes we do the looking after.

Do you find yourself more often taking care of people, or being taken care of yourself?

( Not a Flipped Switch )

"The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us."

-Quentin Crisp

( By Hook and By Crook )

On something she's dreading:

Cole hadn't outright said she'd draw attention as a native of a peninsula city who couldn't swim.  Only, "This is your chance for complete freedom.  Take it."

And she wanted to be free more than anything now, certainly more than she wanted to hold onto the fear out of sentiment. But.  She could aim a basketball, a punch, ( Read more... )

What are your favorite type of scenes to write? Fight scenes? Love scenes? Funny scenes? Dramatic moments? Why? Do you make an attempt to write outside your comfort zone and try others, or do you tend to indulge yourself?

This one time, at drama camp, I got some good acting/writing advice: there are, the teaching artist said, fundamentally only two ( Read more... )