Warm-up Exercise: Your Life in One Page

I don’t write poetry often, and there’s a good reason. It’s not my gift. But I’m tackling my 165,000 word sixth novel with the goal of slimming it down to a less prosy 125,000. I really want to do this. I decided a warm up exercise was in order. I’ll never know quite how I

Believe.

What should determine your behavior? How you feel at the moment? What you think of those around you? What those around you think? All of those things do have an effect, even if we don’t think they should. But my current favorite film focuses on a different answer, and it’s got me thinking. The way

Point of View

I violate one of the basic rules of storytelling. I do it often, I do it on purpose, and I like doing it. The rule is to pick a point of view and stick to it, at least for a full chapter. But because the stories I tell myself are never told from a single