Read this on galpod.com. The school year has begun in our household, which I thought would give me more time for a post but no such luck....

Read this on galpod.com. I’ve been thinking lately about becoming. Austin Kleon, a very good person to follow if you like to think about...

Read this on galpod.com. Over the past few weeks, I’ve worked through John Fox’s course on writing sentences. I like his enthusiasm, and...

Read this on galpod.com. I finished reading Snowflake last night. I had put it on my list because I heard the author, Louise Nealon, on...

Read this on galpod.com. I’m not a visual person. I mean, to the extent that humans experience the world mainly through their eyes, sure,...

Read this on galpod.com. When I was 14, I babysat and cleaned houses and worked at the library and earned enough money to buy two pairs...

Read this on galpod.com. I think it's excellent that we have people like Matt Haig and Simone Biles who talk about their mental...

Read this on galpod.com. A couple of months ago, I started working with Todoist. I like this app because it's reasonably straightforward,...

Read this on galpod.com. Like, full ones. They can be tricky. Or worse, they can be boring. Apparently, boring sentences are very common...

Read this on galpod.com. I've been struggling with doing a scene-by-scene analysis for my manuscript over the last few weeks. I thought...

Read this on galpod.com. I had a chat with my daughter this morning. She's ten years old and mentioned that her teacher, as part of the...

Read this on galpod.com. Some famous writer said (I honestly can't remember who, and I couldn't find it anywhere) that she (I'm pretty...

Read this on galpod.com. I love cooking. I like looking at recipes, finding the one that works best for what I have, tweaking it a bit to...

Read this on galpod.com. I went to see the Rodin exhibition at the Tate Modern with a couple of friends. It was good fun (as far as...

Read this on galpod.com. I'm reading I Don't Know How She Does It right now for research (damn, I love being a writer). It's fairly old...

Read this on galpod.com. Conflict is perhaps what I find the most difficult to write. I firmly believe that most people are actually good...

Read this on galpod.com. Like story plot, creating characters is a topic discussed in writing blogs ad nauseam. I'm definitely not an...

Read this on galpod.com. There's a lot of written stuff out there about plot points. What I have found useful is using five plot points...

Read this on galpod.com. I'm a student at heart. I take notes, I read closely, and I apply what I learn. I've decided that part of...

Read this on galpod.com. I had a chat with a friend the other day, and she told me she doesn't see herself as an immigrant but as an...