I’ve been struggling with revising the beginning of The Next Novel. Not because I don’t know what happens to set my protagonist on her journey—I do. I can see her history winding behind her like a river, pretty far back, before it curves out of… Read More
Looking over my shoulder, I think about 2023 as my “Wonka year” (“You see: nobody ever goes in… and nobody ever comes out.”). No sooner had On Good Authority hit shelves (my debut novel! the stuff of my wildest dreams!) than I disappeared… or, at… Read More
(IMAGE CREDIT: Marco Michelini via FREEIMAGES.COM) At a red light, once upon an icy evening, Mom and I watched as a woman on a motorcycle tipped over. The immediate fear, of course, was that she was hurt – if not from the bike falling on… Read More
I’m glad I read Before the Door Closes (by Judith Hall Simon) directly after Keeping My Balance. This, after that, reminds me that good writing is not so simple as replacing summary with scene, always; rather, good writing has both in moderation. If writing were as simple… Read More
I have had cerebral palsy for all the thirty years I’ve been alive. I’ve been through physical therapy, and surgeries. Yet, up until this week, I had never read a book advising treatment and rearing for those with cerebral palsy. I thought it would be… Read More
Step one in writing about my own childhood with spastic cerebral palsy has been to read Karen, by Marie Killilea – a book about another cerebral palsied kiddo, written by her mother. I thought it’d be smart to get a parent’s perspective. What I didn’t… Read More
Briana Una McGuckin 