Rory Evans Connally, the New Edition of a Wonderful Classic
It’s been a long time since I wrote on this blog! But with this entry I have something wonderful to report: a new life. On November 20, my grandson Rory Evans Connally was born at 6:36 a.m., weighing in at 9 lb. His parents are my youngest son, Kevin, and his...Writing Dialog: –“It’s easy, huh?” –“Well, actually, no.”
It’s called trial and error, the method by which I learned (and am still learning) to write dialog. I remember my first slap-in-the-face realization that good dialog is hard to write. I was an undergraduate (way back when) and I decided to enroll in a playwrighting...For Writers: Three Observations After Months of Critiquing
In January of 2014 I began working on a MFA in creative writing with the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts, majoring in fiction writing. I love the program, which is academically demanding but not academically snobby. All good writing is appreciated and...Point of View in Fiction: Some Gleanings From the Whidbey Writers Workshop
In my previous post I wrote about my first semester with the Whidbey Writers Workshop, which is the MFA in creative writing program offered by the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts. I’ve been writing on my own for a long time, but these last few months with the...
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I am a writer who loves good music and good stories. It’s been my privilege to combine these loves by writing fiction that honors the creation of beauty, even in the bleakest of circumstances, through the creation of music. Writing has also led me to a deep interest in the recent history of central and eastern Europe.
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