Nancy's Blog

Sometimes writing presents questions you never dreamed of. Two months ago I wrote a very long novella (38,000 words) called "Before the...

PAUL is a movie made for nerdy sci-fi geeks, among which I count myself. Unfortunately, it's also made for fans of raunchy and tastele...

First -- apologies for not blogging for so long. I was without Internet access for a week while closing out my just-sold house, a sobering ...

Several years after everyone else, and in the name of research into current YA novels, I finally read Stephenie Meyers's mega-bestseller...

Yesterday Jack and I drove back from the Rainforest Retreat. It had, uncharacteristically, finally stopped raining. The retreat was a sati...

This weekend is the first of two writers' retreats, both called Rainforest Retreat, that Patrick Swenson is running in March on remote a...

Last week I taught the second half of a writing-fiction course. Nothing new in that -- I teach often. This one, however, was different. S...