there's a new podcast episode up with fellow Ohio author, YALSA Top Ten Teen nominee, and all around funny guy Kurt Dinan. We talk about querying, short stories, writing humor, as well as unlikely poisonous substances and our porn names.
More Character Movement Writing Advice
Last week I blogged about character movement in writing, and had a lot of hits on that post. I decided to go into a little more detail abut writing character movement - what works, and what doesn't - in this week's podcast. Check it out below!
Thursday Thoughts
Thoughts lately center on my child-thoughts:
1) When I was just a kitten I didn't understand the connection between eating and going to the bathroom. I thought we spent our lives chewing up our food and depositing it inside ourselves, and that death occurred when we were finally full. I thought if I chewed up my food really well, I could extend my life. Too bad I didn't have the book EVERYONE POOPS to clear that up for me. Someone explained the error in my beliefs at some point and so I came up with the new death theory -
2) Quite a few of the elderly ladies in my church had osteoporosis. Since food couldn't kill you I figured out that once you hit a certain age you started shrinking, and eventually faded off into nothing.
3) When I was little bathing, eating and sleeping were three things that took up way too much of my time and pulled me out of whatever I was doing. Think about it - when you were kid, and super involved with your playtime you inevitably heard: "Bathtime! Dinner! Bedtime!" As an adult, bathtime, dinner and bedtime are like the most awesome points of the day.