Lori

How to Write a Book: 8 Steps

How to Write a Book or "How do I write a book?" is the most basic and yet the most complicated question I get from other writers. For fun, I plugged this question into Google and got some really bad advice. Like starting with the names of each chapter. Maybe that...

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Plotting: The Inciting Incident

When plotting your book the scene you probably know immediately is the Inciting Incident. It's the event that kicks off all of the action in your book. The Inciting Incident is what pushes your character to make some choice or embark on some journey that is the main...

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Thor: Ragnarok

Thor: Ragnarok

Let us all pause and say it again... THOR... RAGNAROK. Have you seen it? Have you seen the other Thor movies? If not.... WHY NOT? So I've been watching from the beginning. Honestly, before I even made the whole Marvel connection... I mean... it's Thor. The Marvel...

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Seven Layer Overnight Salad

Seven Layer Overnight Salad

As a child of the 70's, I ate this salad a lot. It was honestly one of the only salads that I really enjoyed. As an adult I have discovered that a lot of people somehow missed out on this culinary delight/trend in their own childhoods... such a shame. It is super...

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