I met DeAnna at a writing workshop on the Oregon Coast a few years ago. We read each other’s short stories for one assignment, and hers was so well done I got all the way to the end before I remembered what I was supposed to be doing and had to start over. DeAnna recently…
One of the fun parts about working on a story set in a different time and place is learning how people lived then. For example, a few years ago I wrote a short story about a stagecoach robbery, and I learned that in some coaches strips of leather (called ‘thorough braces’) supported the body of…
I’ve finished my last writing class until the anthology workshop in Oregon in February, and am working hard on the current novel. And: I’m on vacation!!! I realize it must seem odd that I’m working on the novel on vacation, but writing is fun for me, so this has been really great. One of the…