My last post was about brainstorming with my writer pal Marcy on a novel idea involving dementia and Alzheimer’s. Much of what is going into the book is based on my experience with my mother and my father-in-law who are both suffering from this kind of memory loss. Every phone call I have with them…
Branch of the family tree, okay vine. Often when I read science fiction, the main characters and certainly the supporting and stock characters rarely have family. I don’t mean they don’t ever have family, but family is not the cause of change or action in them. Family is window decoration in most novels. Yet family…
Write when you can. Be there the rest of the time All writers juggle their private and public lives with their writing lives. It doesn’t matter if they write for a living or write part time. Yesterday, I had a rare day free from any after-work demand from my job. I had a post for…
