I know you all have been wondering what’s going on with my next book. I wrote a few pages and tried writing it in the first person for the first time and I thought that maybe I just have a hard time writing in the first person, but no that wasn’t the problem. Then I…
Month: January 2017
Let’s Talk Character Development
When I first started writing novels in 1994 I was not thinking about things such as character development. When I wrote my very first novel which was a romance novel titled Forbidden Fruit. Yeah, I know that title is ridiculous. Stop laughing. Anyway, I would just sit down and start writing. I didn’t even do…
Finding A Quiet Place to Write When It’s Impossible…
This week has been a very trying one. Lots of noise around me makes it difficult to find a quiet place to write. When I have to deal with noise and can’t go anywhere, the thing that helps me is a website called mynoise.net. It is an online sound generator that allows you to choose…
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Staying Focused
Hey there… I almost forgot to write my weekly blog entry today. I am very tired. I didn’t get much sleep last night. As I try to work on the next novel, I have been having a very hard time staying focused on it. Other things keep clouding my mind. Things like what this country…
A Year of Passion and Pain
Hello and Happy New Year… This week has been a sad one and a productive one for me. Let’s talk about the sad stuff first. The death of Carrie Fisher hurt so many people, myself included and then Losing her mother actress Debbie Reynolds the very next day was like a punch in the gut….