Kathleen Rowland

Cross-cultural, cross-racial Author

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Please join me at my blog, PETALS IN THE GAZEBO,  for daily conversations about the crafts of life--  People, Cooking, Handicrafts, and Wordsmithing.  Your company is appreciated.


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We are almost empty nesters! My husband, a CPA, and I live in southern California where the youngest of our five children is in her second year in college. Heck, yeah, I have him all to myself. We enjoy sailing off Newport Harbor. Earlier this year, I taught an online class, Point of View, for RWA Carolina Romance Writers. I'm used my video-camera-on-the-head technique to help writers look through their character's eyes, use their voices and feel moods. I am convinced that for commercial fiction, switching point of view (POV) within a scene translates is one of the two most common reasons a manuscript is rejected. Editors call it head bobbing. Point of view is one of fiction writing’s most difficult elements to master.

Click here to contact me about writing. Better yet, visit my blog and ask any questions you have at kathleenrowland.wordpress.com/ where I share what I've learned about writing a compelling story.