by Pamela Beason | Dec 20, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, Saving Money
I’ll just come out and say it: I’m basically anti-materialistic. So this time of year with its emphasis on consumerism makes me more than a little crazy. I’m especially sensitive to it because I know a lot of people who are still going through hard...
by Pamela Beason | Aug 7, 2014 | #WriteTip, The Writing Life
Having problems getting from Point B to Point C in your novel? You’re not alone. Why do so many plots bog down in the middle of the story? Here are a few reasons: Problem: You’ve lost sight of your character’s goal. Solution: Revisit your character’s goal and...
by Pamela Beason | Apr 24, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
“Hi, I’m Rae Ellen Lee, an internationally unknown author,” my friend says to the bicycle rider who has stopped to chat with us in a Utah canyon. Rae Ellen is more forward and much funnier than I am, and I love this line. It cuts through the embarrassing...
by Pamela Beason | Apr 16, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
Today I’m in Escalante, Utah, sharing good times with my intrepid author friend Rae Ellen Lee. This is the first time I’ve been back to Canyon Country since I used it as the setting for my novel Endangered, and as we explore the area, I am reminded of several...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 29, 2014 | Private Investigator, The Writing Life
Fair Warning: This post discusses unidentified corpses, so if you don’t want to think about death and missing persons, click away right now. As a private investigator, on the very first missing persons search I worked on, I found that the individual was...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 24, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
I just returned from four days at Left Coast Crime in beautiful Monterey, California, and I am exhausted. I can’t decide whether my fatigue is from multiple mornings when I had to arise at 3:30 a.m. to make my flight, or because I’m an introvert and crowds...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 10, 2014 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
After a surprisingly heavy snowfall (for my coastal area), I decided to pull on my hiking boots and stroll the 1.5 miles to my favorite park while the scenery was coated in white. The trail was only a bit slippery and the frosting of snow made thick woods and...
by Pamela Beason | Mar 2, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
When I heard about the Association of Writers and Writing Programs (AWP) Conference in Seattle this year, I was 1) perplexed about why I didn’t already know about it and 2) eager to go investigate. So I signed up to help out with a vendor booth–Chanticleer...
by Pamela Beason | Jan 21, 2014 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
I was recently asked to do a talk about why the wilderness makes a good setting for novels, so I decided to write a post about it here. Reason #1 – I’m passionate about wild places and want to share my love of them with an audience. I can rhapsodize about my...
by Pamela Beason | Jan 12, 2014 | Everyday Chaos, The Writing Life
No matter how I try to avoid it, I get stalled sometime in January every year. The days are short, the holidays are over (thank God), the weather is generally miserable, and I’m stuck in the tedium of end-of-previous-year paperwork for my three businesses....
