by Denise Vega | September 21, 2012 | Writing Inspiration
Okay, so I have this pet peeve about the use of cups and cars in TV and movies. Cuppa Somethin’, Please Have you noticed that when a character is handling a paper/plastic/styrofoam cup–say of coffee–that often they carry it as if it’s...
by Denise Vega | September 20, 2012 | Novels, Writer Tips & Tools
As I noted in the first Writer’s Studio, back in January I hit a wall with my new YA novel and knew I needed to set it aside for awhile. (For the record I burst into tears, e-mailed my group and told my husband I felt like a failure, and then ate too much...
by Denise Vega | September 19, 2012 | Writing Inspiration
It’s been almost four weeks since we moved our son, Zachary, out to California to start at USC, and it’s meant a lot of changes for everyone. Now, I was never one of those hovering, helicopter parents who was involved every step of the way. But Zach and I...
by Denise Vega | September 14, 2012 | Film, TV, Culture, Random Stuff, Writing Inspiration
Today is the first official blab about film, TV, culture, etc so I decided it was confession time with how I watch stuff and what I watch. First, I don’t watch reality TV, except for a snippet here and there when my kids or my mother-in-law have it on and...
by Denise Vega | September 13, 2012 | Writer Tips & Tools
So if you haven’t heard of Scrivener, it’s a software program that helps you organize your writing – nonfiction book, novel, screenplay, etc. I’d heard about it a couple of years ago, but it sounded very heavy on form and I thought it would be...
