by KTWagner | Aug 29, 2011 | Literacy
Today’s blog tour topic – What can and should writers do to support literacy? – was my question, but then I tried to write an answer. I quickly realized I needed to back up a couple of steps and answer a different question: Why should writers (and anyone...
by KTWagner | Aug 15, 2011 | The Writing Life
Welcome. The topic for today’s rolling blog tour: Do you critique for free? It’s a thought provoking question and I thought about it all day while tackling the carpet of weeds passing for my back garden these days. First, I believe critique from another writer (or...
by KTWagner | Aug 8, 2011 | The Writing Life
I am hunched over my laptop in a Portland hotel room, squinting through an exhausted blur, trying to write something coherent about the last three days. Writing is largely a solitary activity, though I rarely feel alone as I breathe life and form into my characters....
by KTWagner | Aug 1, 2011 | The Writing Life
Last fall, I made my annual pilgrimage across the river to the Surrey Writers Conference where Arthur Slade regaled the audience with a tale of survival – a treadmill desk saved him from death by writerly life. I had to have one – only my life was at stake. For...
by KTWagner | Jul 27, 2011 | Writing
My first Northern Lights Gothic blog post is part of a rolling blog tour. The tour takes place two or three times a week with a variety of mystery writers hopping on and off. Today, I hopped on. This post is the second of today’s tour and the topic is Favorite...
