Rebecca J. Carlson

Punctuation is important. I have to start taking the camera with me when I drive to town. I want to get a photograph of this one truck I s...

My Dad's a pilot. He knows there are a few things you can't afford to go wrong at 10,000 feet, so he has a pre-flight safety check...

This morning I unscrewed the cap on the milk jug and took a whiff. A certain sour tang told me it was past its prime. You know what that mea...

I promised myself that I'd be ready to submit after draft 10, but I should have known better. In draft 6 I extracted a 20,000-word subpl...

Today at our Laie Young Writers meeting, we'll be talking about pitches. This will be the first in a series that covers two vital weapon...

I co-mentor a teen writing club with one of my neighbors. One phenomena associated with this venture is the excessive amount of e-mail all t...

When I write, I write hard. So what to do with all that energy when I finish a revision and need to wait for the dust to settle in my brain?...