Letting Go of What I Can’t Control
The first week of the month we do confessions around here. (We are the Parking Lot Confessional, after all.) Here’s what’s on my mind… These are not mine. I’m taking a ceramics class this semester and...
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 10: Resurrecting Your Writing Routine
Hey everyone! It’s been a bit hectic around here, which makes this week’s podcast topic rather fitting: resurrecting your writing routine. Ever have a life event interrupt your writing routine, and...
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 11: To Shelve or Not to Shelve
That is the question…of the newest episode of Curb Chat, our bi-monthly podcast! This time around, we’re talking about when (and when not) to give up on languishing stories and/or novels. We hope you...
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 12: Action Plans
We’re back with a new episode of Curb Chat! In this episode we discuss action plans: how we decide what to write next. By the time we got to the lightning round, we were pretty punchy. Hilarity ensued...
View ArticleA new season of Curb Chat! Here’s the first episode.
Hello! We’re back with a new season of Curb Chat! In the first episode we discuss writing resolutions for the new year, making them and keeping them. It’s a little longer than usual, but it’s full of...
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 2.2 – What we’re geeking out about in 2015
Hey everyone! Here’s a new episode of Curb Chat and we’re getting out geek on again. In this episode, we talk about what we’re excited about in the coming year, everything from books to movies to TV...
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 2.3 – How we decide which books to read
Hi there! It’s time for a new episode of Curb Chat. This time we’re talking about books–specifically, how we decide what to read when it comes to new authors or books outside our usual reading circles....
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 2.4: Defeating the Negative Voices
Do the negative voices ever get you down? You know, the offhand comment from a frenemy, or the critical voice in your own head? Well, they get us down sometimes, so we decided to talk about how we...
View ArticleThe Perfectly Plotted Book (It DOES exist)
The other day I reread the classic YA novel The Hero and The Crown for the first time in about fifteen years. My original copy had gotten badly damaged and for years I’d held onto it out of sentiment...
View ArticleCurb Chat Episode 2.5 – The PLC Interviews the PLC
Hey everyone! We’ve been on a bit of a hiatus while we slew dragons, rerouted rogue earth-crunching asteroids, discovered and perfected warp drive, and wrote novels. But now we’re back with a new...
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