What I knew was that I loved writing. Or maybe I loved feeling and that made me want to write. I remember often the day that we took a ride into the mountains,
Writing Resources
I love writing, but I also love teaching writing and encouraging or coaching other writers. This part of my website is the natural outgrowth of that passion.
From time-to-time, I will add information or websites that I hope other writers might find useful, like this one from Purdue University:
https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/subject_specific_writing/creative_writing/index.html
The owl at the beginning of the URL mean Online Writing Lab and it is the creation of Purdue University. This particular part of their site is the introduction to Creative Writing resources. If you look to your left, you will see just a glimpse of all the great resources available to you here.
Keep watching because I will add more resources, mostly dependent on either what I need or what my students need.
Getting Started as a Writer: My Way by Carol Brennan King
But I learned this, you can learn what I paid significant amounts of money to learn, by going to writers' conferences, joining writing groups, taking classes at the library. and hanging out around this part of my blog.
Editing, Class 4 July 22, 2020
Listen to your work. Have someone else read it to you, so you have a sense of how it sounds, the flow and the rhythm of the work. When you read it yourself, you may miss these things.
Editing Class 3, July 15, 2020
Honesty here: my weaknesses are so, then, that and just. Then seem to go with my tendency to write long-run-on sentences.
Self-Editing Class Notes Class 2 July 8, 2020
Read it out loud, and to an audience or person who if possible who will tell you the truth, not just say, “That was great.”
Building a Setting for your story or novel
The emphasis this week is the setting, likening it to building a house, and you can't do either one if you don't know what belongs where.
Zoom Class: Writing a Scene
Real-time momentum means what happens, what is said, and how does the character interact with the setting and characters.
Great Storytelling
Now, once you explore why you feeling that way, consider how you can use that scenario to inform your story.
Continuing Your Stories
For instance: Susan ran down the stairs, her heels slowing her only a little, but she knew she had to get there before he did. She stepped out onto the shiny rain-washed streets, the restaurant and bar windows flashing neon red and blue streaks lighting the way to her car.
Carol's Notes 