I watched The Man Who Invented Christmas for the first time this year. It’s about Charles Dickens and the writing of A Christmas Carol. Highly recommended, especially for fiction writers and for readers who want to know one take on how the writing process can…

Friend and fellow writer Dora Abel recommended that I watch THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, so she and Sara and I did. As authors, we loved the visualizations of how we gather bits and pieces and slosh ’em around together until some of ’em stick…

We probably each have our own list. Mine is liable to change order and gain or lose an item, but #s 2 and 1 are pretty constant. I’m all about A Christmas Carol, so the list always contains several versions of that. 10. Smoke Not…