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Retrofitting my Tortoise Mentality
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. ~ Tom Clancy I’ve been talking about characterization lately…
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Why Setting Can Make -- Or Break a Book
One of my favorite quotes of all time is by Russian Writer Anton Chekhov who wrote, “I don’t need to…
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Putting the Character in Character
This article originally ran on the Writerspace blog By Donnell Ann Bell One of the hardest things for me to…
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Anti-Bullying and How to Stop it
An article I wrote on anti-bullying ages old, but one I think bears repeating. ~ Donnell Just be Professional–it’s not…
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God Grant Me Wisdom & Second Chances
Don’t you wish there were do-overs in life? Fortunately in fiction, there is. Following is a short story I wrote…
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Geezer-lit: Older People Make Great Characters
The first time I saw Mike Befeler in person, he was standing before a crowd at the Pikes Peak Writers…
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