When I started this blog as a part of my journey to publication, The Between represented the deep chasm I perceived between the writing of my four novels and their eventual launch into the world. It would be a place of rejection and disappointment, with occasional joys and victories along the way–a journey through the dark […]
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Ideas for Plotting A Novel
Today Dorothy Ann Skarles writes about how she comes up with ideas for plotting her novels. She then shares the bare bones of a story called Silent Deceptions that’s fermenting in her head. Welcome Dorothy. Plotting a Novel When I first start plotting a novel, I only write an idea for a beginning and then think of two or three endings that might […]
Guides / Guidance to the Hidden Dimension of Life
The Hidden Dimension Deepak Chopra calls it The Hidden Dimension of Life. James Redfield calls it The Responsive Universe. Robert Butler calls it The White Hot Center of The Unconscious. Kabir Helminski calls it the Threshold Between Two Worlds. Janet Conner calls it The Intersection. It’s the dimension outside of the normal five senses where your earthly and […]
Silent Deceptions / Idea for a Novel
Today, guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles shares an idea that is fermenting in her mind about a suspense novel she is thinking about writing. Welcome Dorothy. Idea for a Novel My publisher, Twilight Times Books, has a book out titled, How I Wrote My First Book, told by 20 authors, including me, about what went into writing their […]
Shapes of Fiction /The Iceberg / Silver Flats
For an assignment in my Structure and Style class through UC Davis Extension, we were asked to write a scene, using two shapes of fiction as outlined in Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern: Iceberg and Visitation. Stern’s Iceberg shape of fiction shows how to handle thoughts, dialogue, and action in writing. In this shape, the […]
Dash off A Memory / School Days Growing Up
Here’s guest blogger Dorothy Ann Skarles with another lesson on Memoir. What do you remember about your school days? Dorothy has memories a plenty. School Days Growing Up What I remember about my school days—is moving. I never went to the same school twice. Daddy always used to say, “Pumpkin, traveling is the best education you […]
