Bits and Pieces

In The Rules of Forever, Cara brings her students to visit Lauren at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a lesson in art and poetry analysis. After practicing with Hokusai's The Great Wave, the students are let loose in the galleries to locate other ...

Newsletter from November 2022. ...

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I have to have silence when I write. The tiniest thing will distract me. TV? Absolutely not. I would find even C-SPAN utterly fascinating if it meant I could procrastinate sweating over that next paragraph. And forget music. I can’t listen to music ...

*Cara Talarico is a fictional character from my forthcoming novel, The Rules of Forever. Her opinions are strictly her own. How Waiting Tables Made Me a Better Teacher I firmly believe there should be a mandatory requirement for all ...

Here’s an exercise assigned by the wonderful Finn Burnett for a class on dialogue during GCLS’s Writing Academy, of which I am a graduate (Class of ’21! Woo hoo! Go Trebuchets!). We had to write a dialogue based on the photo below. Ruby drained ...

Hello and welcome to my new website! I love to read and write and talk about what I read and write, and here is where I’ll be doing that. I look forward to sharing new authors and books I’ve discovered, and sharing any news about my own writing ...