Over this year, Karina is going to share some of her writing seminars on the blog, with the lessons and references for further study. We’ll be posting these once a month. There’s no assigned homework, but if you have questions, please ask them in the comments. Her first workshop is […]
Karina Teaches Worldbuilding – Final Lesson
Over this year, Karina is going to share some of her writing seminars on the blog, with the lessons and references for further study. We’ll be posting these once a month. There’s no assigned homework, but if you have questions, please ask them in the comments. Her first workshop is […]
Organization for the Writing Life
None of us has enough time, but we might improve considerably our approach to the time we do have. I suggest we consider time ‘as Catholics,’ ‘as professionals,’ and ‘as artists’ to make the most of time. Catholic Time As Catholics, we should have regular recourse to refreshment in ‘time […]
Karina Teaches Worldbuilding – Lesson 5
Over this year, Karina is going to share some of her writing seminars on the blog, with the lessons and references for further study. We’ll be posting these once a month. There’s no assigned homework, but if you have questions, please ask them in the comments. Her first workshop is […]
Karina Teaches – Lesson 4
Over this year, Karina is going to share some of her writing seminars on the blog, with the lessons and references for further study. We’ll be posting these once a month. There’s no assigned homework, but if you have questions, please ask them in the comments. Her first workshop is […]
Karina Teaches – Lesson 2
Over this year, Karina is going to share some of her writing seminars on the blog, with the lessons and references for further study. We’ll be posting these once a month. There’s no assigned homework, but if you have questions, please ask them in the comments. Her first workshop […]
Is It Ever Wrong To Do the Right Thing?
An essay is a little thought experiment. A good question can provoke you to try out your thoughts on paper. You may think it strange to tell writers this, but all writers need to grow and develop, or we become stale. It’s too tempting to stay in territory that is […]
Monday’s Writing Tips – Part 2 of Edits 2
Now that we have done about half of the edits on the chapter we have been working on, it should be greatly improved. Let’s look at some other important features. The First Sentence- So many authors spent endless hours perfecting the first line of their novel. They have been […]
It’s a Year for Writers!
Happy New Year Catholic writers! Here’s a few months of writing prompts for you bloggers. It’s amazing how many months-of-something have been declared by everyone from our bishops to self-promoting speakers to your local Economic Development committee. It’s possible for any of us to get together and claim this is […]
Transitions – How to get your character from here to there
One area of writing craft that doesn’t get a lot of attention is that of writing transitions. You’ve gotten to the end of a scene, or maybe just to the middle, and the characters need to move to a different location, or perhaps some time must pass. How do we […]