Most of us labor over getting started. Finding...
Tender Cuts a Powell’s Book Staff Pick!
Best Microfiction 2020
Included in the “Tender Cuts” collection is “BFFs,” now nominated by Moonpark Review for Best Microfiction 2020
Craft Matters: On Plot and Plotting
Character-driven or plot-driven? There seem to be two camps of popular thought when it comes to writing fiction: Character-driven or plot-driven. As if they were mutually exclusive, when most well-written work is a deft blend of both. Just different approaches....
On “Creating” Characters
The line extended as far as the eye could see, each of us hoping that today we would be among the lucky ones chosen to be part of some writer’s story. I’ve led many lives; a pregnant teenager, the father of a murdered son – that was a tough one – a prison...Jayne’s Latest Book
