Tag: craft

Plotting

This past December, I attended an excellent presentation on Painless Plot Pointers given by David Macinnis Gill. David is the author of young adult and middle grade novels and has taught plot structure for the MFA program at Vermont College. In his workshop, David walked us through the new Three Act plot structure. The traditional […]

Chapter Endings

I’ve been busy drafting my next novel and am happy to report steady progress. Not the chapter a week that I’d been hoping for, but I am cranking out chapters in time to meet my critique group deadline for review. The story muse is speaking to me again. Even when I’m not actively typing, my […]