I have hit the tenth anniversary of this blog. My first post was on January 17, 2012, on a WordPress.com blog I called Story & History: One writer’s journey through life and time. Five years later, in February 2017, I migrated to this site, TheresaHuppAuthor.com. I now use a WordPress.org […]
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Thoughts on Story and History and an Update on My Work-in-Progress
Longtime readers of this blog know that it started as a WordPress.com blog called “Story and History: One Writer’s Journey Through Life and Time.” I’ve kept the title “Story and History” even after I integrated the blog into my author website in 2017. And I also use the full title […]
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My 750th Post and an Update on Early Guest Bloggers
I was surprised to get a notice from WordPress.com recently congratulating me on my 9th anniversary on the site. I guess I did register with them back in 2010, though the first blog I kept was anonymous, and has since been taken off public view. I started my current blog […]
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The Story That Wrote Itself: An Epic Fail by Amazon
Every so often, something happens in real life that makes a good story. There is plot, there is conflict, there are characters. That happened to me last week. The characters were my daughter, her brother, and me. The conflict will be revealed if you read this post. I’ve mentioned before […]
Continue readingMemories: A Creative Blend of Fact and Fiction
Many of the posts on this blog are about my memories. My theme, after all, is “one writer’s journey through life and time.” And what is our journey, if not a collection of memories? Last week, the Wall Street Journal published an article entitled “The Value of a Flawed Memory,” […]
Continue readingStorytelling Is Important in Many Professions, Whether Reciting the Facts or Making It Up
Lawyers are supposed to tell a story when they are trying a case. Professors taught me that in law school classes, I read countless columns by James McElhaney in the American Bar Association Journal over the years giving the same advice, and I went to a National Institute of Trial […]
Continue readingWhat Is Story (Redux)? . . . And a Sense of Urgency
My first post on this blog went live in January 2012, but I didn’t start a regular posting schedule until March of that year, so I consider March my blog’s anniversary. This blog is now three years old. I deliberately set the blog’s theme “Story and History” to be broad […]
Continue readingSculpting My Novel and My Life
My writing goal for the summer was to finish an edit of my second Oregon Trail book. I got it done just after Labor Day. Of course, that was not the end of the project. I know it needs another substantial edit. And probably another edit after that. And I’m […]
Continue readingWriting Creative Nonfiction: Objective Facts v. Personal Truth
Readers who are not writers may wonder what “creative nonfiction” is. Many writers wonder also. How can nonfiction be creative? I recently attended a program at The Writer’s Place in Kansas City on Creative Nonfiction. Our presenter was Kate Meadows, a freelance writer and editor. The definition Kate used for […]
Continue readingAuthor’s Blog Chain
I’ve been asked to participate in an Author’s Blog Chain this week, which gives me the opportunity to tell you more about my writing. Juliet Kincaid, a Kansas author and member of the local Sisters in Crime chapter, tagged me on her blog, Juliet Kincaid, Writer. Juliet has recently written a series […]
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