Posts Categorized: writers

   
Hi gang, hope you all are doing well! Over here at Casa Owen, it’s been a crazy time. Orthodontia visits, snow, school cancellations, and a virus that’s out to show me who’s boss, have combined to derail my productivity this week. I plowed through (ha, get it?) as best I could, but my mental processes…

   
Any chronic plotters out there? *Raises hand* When I plan a story, I make outlines, and outlines of outlines. I color-code, draw story arcs, reorder scenes, and so on. Maybe it’s an occupational hazard for mystery writers, because we have to plant the clues, the red-herrings, and the obstacles. We need to know “whodunnit” (or…

   
Happy New Year!  The start of 2014 is the perfect time to re-assess one’s goals, evaluate what worked well in 2013, and figure out what happens next. Throw in a polar vortex, which is socking most of the U.S. in a deep freeze that hasn’t been seen in two decades, and there’s even more opportunity…