Multiple Points of View
Atticus Fitch. Huck Finn. Rebecca. Offred. Lolita. You can name the novels that featured these characters, right? Why? Because their first-person narrator voices are memorable. When a character tells their own story, it allows us insight that we, as readers, would never get otherwise. That voice drives the narrative, providing a sense of drama, because […]
The Writer’s Life
I’ve been a writer for so long that I don’t have any idea what it is to not be one. For me, a writer’s life means spending a lot of time in front of a computer screen trying to imbibe life into words that another person will read and understand. Or use. Living a writer’s life […]
Broken Characters
In my latest novel, Analyzing the Prescotts, every single character is broken, even the therapist who is at the center of the story and attempts to treat the family members. As I worked through the process of identifying how I wanted to tell the story of a therapist who treats a family broken by the father’s […]
Writing a Memoir
For the past couple of years, I’ve worked on a memoir about the loves in my life, which has been a process I couldn’t have predicted when I wrote the first line. So many questions arose throughout the work (which is almost done — first draft goes to my agent by Labor Day), some of which I anticipated, while others appeared born of the memoir-writing process itself.
Write on Beach
I’m living where I always wanted to: a view of the ocean out my windows. Now, I want to share this space with other writers who need to get some work done and might not have the space or funds to do so. I’m opening my second bedroom for certain writers on a donation basis. My way of giving back. I hope that whoever stays here in this place with Izzy and me can write and breathe and relax.