So I had an epiphany–now what? Now comes the application. Last week Tami Cowden was the speaker at the Georgia Romance Writers meeting. Her talk was absolutely what I needed at exactly the time I needed it. She is one of the authors of the book The Complete Writer’s Guide to Heroes and Heroines which…
Sometimes I sit back and ask myself, “Why am I writing? What have I got to say that is worth the time of any other person on the planet? Where do I belong in the literary scheme of things?” Here is an epiphany I had today, which also explains why I am having so much trouble…
I’m struggling a little with Bend of the River. I’m afraid in my efforts to make it all things to all people, it’s become muddled and choppy. I see many re-writes and reconsiderations in my future, but for now I have to re-find my author’s voice. You see, I thought that maybe I should try…
We all know them, we all make them: New Year’s Resolutions. That time of hope and optimism when you believe that planning ahead makes it all possible. A chronic list maker anyway, I must make mine every year. Here they are for 2015: 1. Re-release Soul Lost in April with a new, professionally made cover. …
This is my third shot at NaNoWriMo. First year I started Nick, wrote 10,000 words, then got busy with life. I did finish Nick, however, and so I consider that first, concentrated push the true reason that book got written. Last year’s only got to 4000 words and remains primarily in my mind, but it waits there…
J.K. Rowling has very famously said that Harry Potter just walked into her life. That story, abbreviated, from jkrowling.com: I was travelling back to London on my own on a crowded train, and the idea for Harry Potter simply fell into my head…I did not have a functioning pen with me, but I do think…
When I finished Soul Lost, I already had another story waiting in the wings. One morning, on the way home from dropping my son off at school, I sat at a traffic light and looked at a lot they were clearing for another strip mall. I thought, ‘What if in the clearing they uncovered the top of…
