If you're writing or revising a book, summarizing your scenes provides a road map. That is, you can see the big picture at a glance. My manuscript is over four hundred pages long, whereas my list of Scene Summaries is only seventeen pages. … [Read more...]
Jason Bourne – the Movie
September's movie review is on Jason Bourne, the movie (2016, rated PG-13), still showing in theaters. What appealed to me before I saw the movie was that Matt Damon was taking on his old familiar role. Yes, he was good in The Martian, but I … [Read more...]
Deep Down Dark, by Héctor Tobar
August’s book review is on Héctor Tobar’s true story, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. As you know, a mine in Chile collapsed on August 5, 2010, and trapped 33 miners in … [Read more...]
Hope That’s Contagious
My mom, Lorena Grosenbach, had hope that's contagious. When I picture her, she’s wearing a shirt waist - the white one with red flowers - and playing peek-a-boo with a grand baby. Or, she’s writing a letter at the dining room table, playing the … [Read more...]
The Hired Girl, by Laura Amy Schlitz
On the first day I opened The Hired Girl, by Laura Amy Schlitz, I read a hundred pages. I immediately liked Joan, a Pennsylvania farm girl who runs away from an abusive situation to Baltimore, where she gets a job as a hired girl with a … [Read more...]
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