There are lots of writing workshops about crafting a plot. Protagonists, nemeses, crises, moments of revelation and choice – and overall story arcs – are discussed. For better or worse, I didn’t think of any of those principles consciously when I began the task in late 2003 of turning a childhood short story into what
Trying to manage a 600,000-word novel series definitely compelled me to check out a variety of writing tools. What I found was no one program did it all (despite the claims). I ended up patching together a lot of individual softwares to make a sort of Mega-Program. And this works well….just leave all the tabs
This is an “old” blog (circa 2003)….an article I wrote for the Issaquah Alps Trails Club newsletter and never used! But it makes perfect sense today, still: In my job, I have a lot of contact with junior high and high school youth. Several have interviewed me, with regard to my role as Trail