by lzadmin | Oct 26, 2014 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
Writers love creating characters. Personality. Physical Appearance. Dress. Mannerisms. Dialog: It’s what we do! It’s how authors bring characters to life. But did you stop to think about your characters’ morality, or more specifically, what level of...
by lzadmin | Oct 19, 2014 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
Any teacher knows Bloom’s Taxonomy. For those not in the teacher loop it’s how educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom classified the levels of thinking. Teachers use the classifications to foster and inspire students’ higher-level thinking skills....
by lzadmin | Sep 28, 2014 | Reading & Writing
Writers should understand their readers’ preferences. This is often a difficult task. Some readers are faithful to one genre only. Others read everything from hardcore literary SciFi to romance. Readers can’t be pigeon holed. Or can they? Novels and cars...
by lzadmin | Sep 7, 2014 | Reading & Writing
Writing is fraught with angst and panic and euphoria and creative outbursts and emotional meltdowns. Writers experience the highs and the lows–which is a good thing because it helps us recreate the feelings in our characters. However…. those mood swings...
by lzadmin | Aug 31, 2014 | Reading & Writing, ROCK your Writing
Temperature symbolism is hot-hot-hot. Turn it up for burning anger or passion that sizzles. Turn it down to reveal character and mood. But be careful, the heated adjectives can be ambiguous in the cold reality of writing. Temperature can: reveal a novel’s...