Month: August 2015

A Writer’s Life: Writing Routine

Whatever works for you.That’s the only way to write. Do you like music or silence? If music: words, or instruments only? In a coffee shop, with people chattering around you? Hunkered down in a closet, ear phones blocking outside noise?There are as many ways to write as there are writers. What worked for one story may […]

Three Berry Trifle

Readers of the past few blog posts will have noticed my mention of Three Berry Trifle. I’ve made the components for it, and now we’ll put it all together. This can be made in a traditional trifle bowl, or any container with clear sides. The beauty of a trifle is seeing the separate layers on […]

Writing Fiction: Voice

Voice. Not to be confused with Dialogue.Voice is the way writers put words together that makes them unique. You can tell Ernest Hemingway and Dan Brown apart by their voice (among other things). Every writer has a style of writing that separates them from other writers. Word choice, and the way they structure sentences. The genre […]

Pound Cake Croutons

I used to be a basic cook, following recipes as written. My mother was a Home Ec major in college, and she taught my sisters and me how to cook (and sew, and needlepoint, and …). She worked for an ad agency styling food after graduating, and also worked in a test kitchen at one […]