Have you received a text message with no name and you don’t know whose phone number it is? It’s not spam because the message includes information that a friend or client would know about you. How many times have you had to reply with “Who are you?” Last week, someone sent me a Happy Birthday […]
Valerie Frankel Wrote Two Books About Symbolism in Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Valerie Frankel posted on Facebook that two of her analysis books on The New Star Wars Film are free on Kindle today to January10th. They are: We’re Home: Fandom, Fun, and Hidden Homages in Star Wars: The Force Awakens AND A Rey of Hope: Feminism, Symbolism and Hidden Gems in Star Wars: The Force Awakens […]
Hada’s Fog Chapter Eleven, Scene One is Posted
Hada’s Fog Chapter Eleven, Scene One is posted. Please see the menu above, click and scroll down to the beginning or to where you left off. Hada continues to defend Samuel, her first-born. In case you missed my post about gender and birth order of characters’ siblings, the link is below. That explanation goes for […]
Karen Cioffi Teaches Power Blogging
I just finished a four week on-line class with Karen Cioffi. She offers a tremendous amount of information and is available one-on-one support for any questions about blogging and the class assignments. I benefited from learning new terminology and new ways to use WordPress as well as how to improve my posts for SEO (search […]
The Gender and Birth Order of Characters’ Siblings Can Deepen Viewpoints
Do any of the characters in your stories have siblings? You can deepen the reasons for the protagonist’s psychological needs by exploring their siblings birth order and gender. On New Year’s Eve at the Berkeley Yacht Club, I talked with a couple friends, one of which brought up a need she had to have a […]
Happy New Year
We are going to see the San Francisco fireworks at midnight. No fog, I hope. Wishing you all the best year yet. Enjoy the LIGHT. Julaina Kleist-Corwin Editor of Written Across the Genres