Month: February 2009

  • Did a freebie online writing workshop today. You can take the workshop.

    The workshop is Creating Characters With Character. My host is Cindy Rushton, and we did this live on the air, so it has the usual rough edges you get with a live workshop…but also the energy you get from someone pacing around the room talking and gesturing (that would be me—cannot sit still while I’m…

  • RebelTales.com is on its way to real

    If you’ve been following my writing diary for long, or if you’ve been with the Writing Updates for a while, you know about the fact that I’ve wanted to do an online fiction e-zine that would break out new writers, offer published writers a new venue, that would print absolutely kick-ass short, medium, and long…

  • Cat-Shaped Hole

    On Friday, February 13, 2009, at about 4:30pm, our cat Spenser died. We named Spenser not after the poet, but after Robert B. Parker’s best character, the detective Spenser. And he lived up to the name, and gave it an honor all his own. Spenser spent 13+ years of his life as a lean, energetic,…