Author: Marsha Qualey

Still thinking

Posted by | Oct 6, 2009 | | 1

This past weekend I was on the faculty at the annual Wisconsin SCBWI fall retreat, and I’m still thinking about a lot of things that were batted around in the various sessions. During a faculty panel the last morning we...

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Done

Posted by | Sep 27, 2009 | | 3

The other day I quit work on a novel. It feels complete, ready for another set of eyes. Almost every other time I’ve reached this point with a novel I ended up revising again, and I anticipate that will happen this time...

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First Person

Posted by | Sep 25, 2009 | | 3

Ah, writing in first. Writing in third. I go back and forth. I just completed another first-person novel, but took time to do a draft of it in third. Sometime the narcissism and narrow view of first is exactly what’s...

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Crafty Books

Posted by | Sep 12, 2009 | | 1

John Gardner. There, now that his name has been mentioned I guess The Storyteller’s Inkpot qualifies as a forum for the discussion of writing. Today I was rereading some chapters in his The Art of Fiction as I prepared a...

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