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Upcoming Sharon Skinner Appearance

Just Announced: Brick Cave Media will be hosting a Zoom Panel June 30 with Sharon A Skinner and Louise Robertson: Can You Separate the Writer From the Work: With Louise Robertson & Sharon Skinner. RSVP Required, and you can RSVP and receive additional details here: https://brickcavemedia.com/event/can-you-separate-the-writer-from-the-work-with-louise-robertson-sharon-skinner/ ...

Sharon Skinner to serve as Arizona State Library Writer-in-Residence at Tempe Library, Feb.-April 2019

The Writers-in-Residence program promotes writing in communities by connecting local, professional authors to serve as Writers-in-Residence at local libraries. Writers-in-Residence spend time at the library during their residency composing new works and providing education for community members. Writers can get expert advice on writing by registering for...

Plotting, Not Plodding!

Plotting Clip Art

Plot points, crisis, and climax, oh my! I have been reading up on plotting, taking a deep dive into process and techniques, attempting to distill the information that others have provided in books like The Plot Whisperer by Martha Alderson, Plot and Structure by James Scott Bell, Building Better Plots by Robert Kernen, and The Plot Thickens by Noah Lukeman into something that I can easily absorb and make part of my ingrained writing process and inform my teaching process, as well.

This is not the first time I have delved into plot at this level. A couple of years ago, I published an essay about plot called “Plot Isn’t Just a Four-Letter Word,” You can find it on line here for free.