Vary the way you show who’s speaking in your dialogue. Use emotive other words for said to season characters’ conversations. Yet seasoning shouldn’t overpower substance. Use the content of what characters say, their movement, body language, pauses, and silences, tocreate deeper, more layered...
Breathless, anxious, and hurried, we find our ways when we turn obstacles into challenges, our wreck-sites into studios—all by a shift of mind, a frameshift. Frameshifts was a practice before it was a fiction. Human beings can see beyond the worlds and wounds they have created. They hav...
I wrote this essay awhile ago, in response to Trump’s cruelty at the Mexican border.Posting it finally now in response to the incredible kindness of the staff at Walker’s Clearbrook group home as they ‘shelter in place’ bravely and lovingly with Walker and his friends. Who can join ...
Another fun part of this launch is that I’m creating a Launch Team to gather together people who would like a FREE BOOK in exchange for an honest review. This will allow you to get the first book in the series as an eBook for free – plus get entered to win an autographed hardcover!
It is important to understand the different types of problematic content and the nuances between the different ways problematic content is presented, because folks will have different levels of tolerance for those different types. For example, I can’t stand High School DxD, but I love To Love-...
‘To say truth,’ said I, ‘I have only seen some dim reference to the things in memoirs; and heard some traditions dimmer still, through my uncle (whom I think you knew). My uncle lived when he was a boy in the neighbourhood of St. Bride’s; he has often told me of the avenue...
. . . —gave me the confidence to pursue the due process claim . . . . Your advocacy is admirable and much needed; it also has an impact beyond just the individual cases you support as an amicus. . . . . [T]his case has been one of the most impressive collaborative efforts I’...
Critical fabulations are ways of storytelling that rework how things that we design come into being and what they do in the world. They deconstruct design methods to open different understandings of the past that reconfigure the present, creating new opportunities for a just future […] By maki...
The parties not being exactly agreed, began to pull different ways, and feeling the unusual restraint which was imposed upon them, they commenced a sort of steeple chase in search of their wonted liberty. A cow which was lying at her ease on the green sward, directly in the line of ...
I’m looking for ways to fit myself in ways to live here And as we caught the ferry back I never dreamed it would be so long before we’d return Helen Rickerby Heading North, Kilmog Press, 2010 Reading the Bar Whakatane Harbour ...