by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 17, 2011 | Music and Musings Monday
Create Diversity Tip four: Take classes! I’ve found several classes offered through writers groups on how to write realistic characters. They have offered, gay, Native American, victims, Latina, psychopaths, police officers, and others. I hope we will be seeing more...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 14, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
I have three very different horror movies for you to pick from today. I hope you find one you like, and make sure to tell me if you ever watch any of the movies I post here. I’d love to know if you enjoyed it. Kibakichi is a Japanese movie about demons and a...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 12, 2011 | Wise Witty and Wacky Wednesday
“There is nothing new under the sun.” We all know this is true. Oh, sure, they make things shinier and put more stuff together. Have you seen the new Kindle Fire- I’m super excited! However, the point is that things are put together in new ways but we repeat the same...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 10, 2011 | Music and Musings Monday
Create Diversity Tip Three: basic research I fear today’s tip isn’t very exciting, but basic research isn’t always very exciting. If you want to write about a place or people you don’t know, get yourself to the library and start researching. Now I will share a...
by Alica McKenna Johnson | Oct 7, 2011 | Foreign Film Friday
It took me reading other people’s posts to realize that it’s October and people were doing Halloween themed blogs. So of course I had to join because there are some really great scary foreign films out there. I’ve already done: The Host and Dead...