Here there be dragons?
Hi, Kim Fielding here. As I write this, I’m on vacation with my family on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State. If I glance up from my laptop screen I see a bay in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Read more
Author: Kim Fielding
I am avoiding a day job project
I have a report due at my day job. A long, boring report. It’s due really soon, and in fact I was supposed to get it done last weekend, before I’m hit with a deluge of term papers and exams Read more
The Paradox of Writing
I’m sitting here right now with the morning’s second cup of tea. The first one was chamomile from San Francisco’s Chinatown; this one is peach-black currant from Paris. I have a cupboard overflowing with teas from around the world, so Read more
Man, that guy’s a jerk!
Kim Fielding here, and today I’m thinking about character arcs. What’s that, you ask? It’s the personal transformation that a character goes through as a story progresses. It’s not the same as the story arc, which is the series of Read more
Eating with a theme
Hi, Kim Fielding here for my monthly column. Recently, I wrote a scene in which my characters eat at a trendy restaurant where all the food is served on things other than plates. The food comes on slabs of wood, Read more
Pet projects
We got a new cat last week. Well, new to us. The shelter estimates that she’s 8 years old. We had our last cat—also a rescued older kitty—only a year before we lost her to feline leukemia. She’s a hard Read more