If you follow me on Twitter, you might have saw me mention the teenage angst going on in my neighborhood last week. There was a MAJOR breakup between my teenage neighbor and his girlfriend. Afterwords, the girl cried hysterically outside the boy's house for about ten minutes --- and just when I was about to go outside and save some of her dignity, she left. The plot thickens. On Sunday morning, there was a little present for the teenage neighbor. Someone had spray-painted "DIE" on his … [Read more...]
yWriter Software
November 13, 2009 Leave a Comment
Since I work in software technology at the day job, I tend to use my left-side of the brain a lot and it bleeds into my writing. I'm a plotter and an outliner. I give props to other writers who can just start writing and let the story lead them to where it needs to go. Not me. I need to know what's going on. I don't need to know everything, but I need to at least have a structure. So I'm a fan of spreadsheets. They are helpful to me during the draft and revision process. But now … [Read more...]
