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Dialog, Subtexting, Talking Heads

By on August 27, 2009 in How do I write Dialogue, Story Crafting

Let’s talk. Dialog. My passion. When I was a preteen, my friends and I created worlds where we were scientist, teachers, single women living in a loft in Minneapolis. (Mary Tyler Moore anyone?) Weight Walkers, our twelve year old version of Weight Watchers. We played out our scenarios in my friend’s basement. In our bedrooms. Outside, riding our bikes. (The Weight Walkers version of make believe.) And without a doubt, the only way our pretend world worked was with dialog. We could motion, gesture, observe each other, pass notes, write on the chalk board and speed past one another on our bikes calling out, “race you!” and never created a make believe world. We had to make up dialog. We had to become characters in our play world. This is […]

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Meet the Voices: Nick Daniels

By on August 26, 2009 in Meet the Voices!

Meet the Voices presents Nick Daniels! Nick was born in the late 1970s, in a bustling city in South America. He wrote his first short story in third grade about a explorer lost in the Amazon jungle, then discovered Jules Verne during sixth grade and was hooked into fiction for life. He spent the next few years reading literature classics (mostly Dostoievsky) and contemporary Latin American writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortazar, and Mario Vargas Llosa, plus every book in the library that picked his interest. At age fifteen, he decided to write a novel about a woman who loses the ability to love. It remains (thankfully) unpublished. After graduating from journalism school, Nick moved to the United States to continue his education and write […]

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Brainstorming: Tips and Tricks

By on August 21, 2009 in Want to see a book in Action? Read the Blog-a-Book Series

Earlier this week, we talked about crit groups. While I wholeheartedly support critique partners and groups, I’ve found another partnership works best for me. Too often I found my critiques were simply line edits. Receiving more than one or two crits from anyone overwhelmed me, especially working against a deadline. I was wasting people’s time. Several attempts to partner with a friend one-on-one to critique never panned out. Just. Didn’t. Work. After an ACFW conference, several of us got on line to brainstorm. Susie Warren, Tracey Bateman, Christine Lynxwiler and Susan Downs. We had a great time, but it was hard to brainstorm the deeper points in a chat room. And we never got much beyond one person’s story. So, we’d call each and work out the story. Susie was […]

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Meet the Voices: Jean Shattuck

By on August 19, 2009 in Meet the Voices!

My Book Therapy presents Jean Shattuck as this week’s featured Voice. Jean started writing when she was thirteen. She’s always had a love for telling stories and for reading, so taking the next step and writing a novel seemed natural. She dabbled for years and didn’t start to get serious about it until her early twenties. Then she was hit with a long-term illness and her dreams were put on hold for a while. Three years ago she got serious about writing again. She is currently working on her first Romantic Suspense novel and has plotted her second. When she’s not busy writing, she’s a nanny to a 6 1/2 year old little girl. Jean lives in Minnesota, and has two Papillion dogs. One is eight years old and the […]

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