I remember when I first starting thinking about writing my book In Times Passed. I worked at a factory and was a product grader. I would pull off the line anything that didn’t meet quality requirements. Doesn’t take much thought or intelligence, just good automaton-like reflexes. I would listen to music, day dream, write letters in…
I have been working on making a book trailer for my novel In Times Passed. This has not been an easy process. I have pretty much everything I need to produce one except a clear idea of how to put across just the right amount of information to create interest in buying the book and…
My husband and I used to own an old red, full-size Dodge truck. I drove it quite a bit, and being a small woman, it always made me feel as though I was doing something unusual. I would see my petite hands wrapped around the over-sized steering wheel, surprisingly slender, the flat bench seat seeming…
I have always viewed writing as a way to create moving pictures in a person’s mind. Sometimes the movement is just the steady closing in on the moment of discovery when everything is crystal clear, intense, sharp to the senses. Other times the view is like the image made by a really fine film camera…
I like time travel stories because the character that travels in time still has to deal with who he or she is. In my first novel of the series I am writing, the main character Brent Garrett is impulsive and tends to do what is immediately important to him. That impulsiveness sets in motion a…
So I crawled into bed, prepared to settle in quietly and not wake my husband. I shut my eyes and then they opened again. I did not post my Wednesday post. So I roll off the bed, body lengthwise, (learned that trick while very pregnant; it doesn’t shake the bed at all) and out the…
pen and paper Yes, I missed my Wednesday blog alright. Teacher, school, homecoming/spirit week/end of term grading: these are my excuses. I missed my blog and didn’t even notice. But I also missed writing further on my current short story and that I noticed constantly. I managed to ease an hour out of my mad…
I downloaded an ebook this summer called 70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes. As I started reading it, I thought is was far too basic for me. After all, I teach creative writing. Wouldn’t I know the basics? But I kept reading it, and then I found myself applying the ideas mentioned in this book…
