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Queer author Dharma Kelleher offers her take on life, love, sobriety, writing, and equal rights.

Added on: Mar 28th, 2008
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Dharma Kelleher
Listed in: Development and Growth Gay and Lesbian
Tags: lesbian funny Spirituality addiction recovery writing

Recent Posts

Learning more about Story Structure

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 13:56 in resource, skills

As I've mentioned before, one of the areas in which I struggle is structure -- specifically at the scene level. For a long time, I didn't know how to determine whether a scene was advancing the plot or not. But I'm learning.Over the weekend, I picked...
Will Equal Rights Issues Date My Fiction?

Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 14:01 in lgbt issues

Change is happening. Slowly. Often with two steps forward, one step back. Sometimes two steps back. Much of New England allows for marriage equality, even though Maine then pulled a "Prop 8" and voted it out. But the issue is in play at a level it ne...
Priming the Writing Pump

Posted on Thursday November 12th, 2009 at 11:06 in writing, resource, outlining, the skinless girl

When it comes to writing a novel, there are "outliners" and there are "discovery writers". "Outliners" create a detailed outline of scenes before beginning the first draft. "Discovery writers" prefer to work without an outline and may or may not have...
Making Changes Mid-draft

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 20:22 in writing, novels, editing, the skinless girl

When I wrote the original draft of The Skinless Girl two years ago (it was during Nanowrimo and was titled A Sense of Community back then), I wrote it in third person limited. After letting it rest for a few weeks, one of my first editing tasks was t...
Stories in Motion

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 11:00 in podcast, novels, short stories, resource

I just mailed off my short story Waffle Shoe Wake to The Georgia Review. It's always an exciting thing to do. Lots of expectations and hopes, tempered with the reality that I face a lot of competition.There's a part of me that just wants to podcast t...
Ready to Launch

Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 11:49 in podcast, short stories, resource, markets

Yesterday, I spent a couple hours at the main Phoenix Library in order to get a feel for some of the literary magazines I'm considering sending on of my short stories. They only had a few of the ones I was considering, but few is better than none.In ...