Where My Characters Come from

I enjoy using strong women as my main characters and I guess it’s because that is what I aspire to be. I write about people that I would find interesting. People that I would root for. Some of my characters are strong men but it’s mostly in my screenplays. I plan to have a strong…

Staying Focused

I don’t know if any of you have this problem but I have had it for my entire adult life and it is sometimes crippling. It stifles my creativity and I absolutely hate it. I have the type of mind that can think about multiple things in a single minute. My friends must have thought…

When You Get Bored Writing Your Book

You know I’ve been writing my next novel for the past month or so and it’s gone through a couple of changes. First of all I changed the title. It was called “On Borrowed Time” now it is called “Spirit Walk” I also had to change a little of the plot which I will not…

Why I write to express myself?

That’s a very good question. I guess it goes back to when I was a kid. I was so shy and quiet. At school the teachers use to tell my parents that they would forget that I was even in the classroom. I guess once my imagination kicked in, I found it easier to express…

Fear

For a long time I was very afraid to show anyone my work. I thought that my writing wasn’t good enough and that I should just keep it to myself. I never wrote for anyone but myself and I didn’t care about being rich and famous. Last year I was preparing to give up writing…

Finding Inspiration

How do you find new ideas for books when it seems like everything has already been written about? Watching movies and T.V shows or reading other people’s books is a good start. Sometimes you can even get ideas from a song or a music video. It’s not easy and sometimes you have to mix a…