Meet Betsy
Welcome to my virtual studio. As both a writer and designer, I’m driven by a curiosity about the world. In my studio, I take that curiosity and use it to create new worlds. I write for kids and adults as well as a good deal of freelance non-fiction. Explore to find out more about me, my books, and my thoughts on writing as well as the thoughts of friends who stop by the studio. If you’ve got something you’d like to share reach out to me through the contact form. I’d love to hear from you. Scroll down to read what’s been happening in the studio.
A Dialogue-phobes Guide to Writing Believable Dialogue
Ask me to create a setting or a mood? No problem. Words flow out of me like a thawed river set free. Write a sex scene? Easy! (Hey, there is very little dialogue necessary here). But, make my characters talk to each other…hmmm.
Have no fear though, there are solutions. Even I, a queen dialogue-phobe, have found ways to work through dialogue blocks and get my hands moving across the page again . . .
Your Hero’s Journey
For her recent webinar, Kendra Levin used the Hero’s Journey as a way for creatives to keep their creativity alive through intense times like now. With pandemic, elections, remote-learning, job insecurities and so much more it is easy to undervalue our writing projects and ourselves as writers. Levin says . . .
