Tag: reflections
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Its a Marathon, not a Sprint
A book launch goes wrong for the protagonist when someone asks a question she was not expecting.
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Dont Feed the Trolls
Some thoughts on dealing with dealing with problem people in the digital and real worlds, based on yet more of Austin Kleon’s work
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2024 IN BOOKS
My best and worst books of 2024 and reading goals for the year ahead
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NaNoWriMo 2024
How did the National Novel Writing Month Challenge go for me in 2024, and what did I learn from the experience about novel writing
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Miserliness is next to Godliness
Ruminations of being a miser and misunderstood
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Can the Hero’s journey be reversed?
Reflections on: The Night Watch by Sarah Waters My writing teachers are big fans of the Hero’s Journey story structure. It is something that with a little prodding you can see just about anywhere and many books use this same basic structure. The protagonist starts in one place emotionally (intellectually) and by the end of…
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Dual Timelines – now I get it
Reflections: The Innocence of Roast Chicken by Jo-Anne Richards I hate dual timeline books. There is a ridiculous absurdity of WW2 stories featuring a dual timeline, all of which are remarkably similar – its so common its probably its own genre at this point. And I have never seen the point of it. It gives…