Empathy | Dead Darlings

Friday Feast: Revision Made Simple, Writing Dual POVs, Walking Helps Us Think, Literary Fiction Teaches Us to be Human, and Won’t Someone Think of the Literature?

Kelly J. Ford / September 23, 2016 / 3 comments

I took a break the past few weeks to finish edits on my novel. I had some guilt about leaving ALL of you without your Friday Feast for a few weeks (hi, Stephanie and Emily and random WordPress denizen). But this…

Friday Feast: In Defense of Villainesses, Women Taking Charge, a Writer’s Guide to Hacking the Reader’s Brain (in 5 Steps), the Importance of Empathy as Craft, and What Happens When a Book Is Fatally Flawed

Kelly J. Ford / August 26, 2016 / no comments

Maybe it’s because I’m writing a novel with two female leads who flirt with a whole heap of trouble. Maybe it’s because of the stunningly sexist commentary from the Olympics and the policing of women’s bodies on the regular. Whatever…

YA Wednesday: The Politics of Hate

Bonnie Waltch / August 17, 2016 / no comments

Unlike 1969, dubbed the “summer of love,” I would label 2016 the “summer of hate.” Between gun violence, shootings of unarmed civilians and police, violent demonstrations against such incidents, and the Orlando massacre here in the U.S., and terrorist attacks…