V. Yongewa Writes

I want to start out with reassurance: Everything I am complaining about, or just observing, is said out of love. I don't hate 'tropes' or...

The Outliner Considering I've been giving some thought to the common complaint of pantsers that they cannot write an outline and then...

The local writing group held a flash fiction contest. That's kind of when you do what Kurt Vonnegut said of his aliens' fiction: catch a...

I got two anthologies from a library sale. They are both fifty to forty years old (like me,) so that gives an interesting range of short...

I've decided to track my new story by excel spreadsheet. Nanowrimo does have a lovely word counter, and I like to use it. I know there...

I'm a plotter. An architect writer, a planner, an outliner, whatever you want to call we who write out the plot of the story before...

A year back I went through my old books and made them...book-like. Table of Contents, copyright page, all those normal book things. Yes,...

I was grocery shopping this morning and reached for some chicken breasts. Then I stopped cold and scowled. The banner across the chicken...

Don't give advice. Everyone is addicted to advising and it's silly. If you aren't truly into a story, don't write it. You won't get money...

The AI suggestions for my posts for this blog were: Italian Destination Weddings and Diversity in Romance. It's a good thing none of...