A couple of weeks have passed since I’ve worked on the new novel. Reading stories with multiple timelines has been liberating — and fun. Working my way into using dual timelines has been difficult, but I’m there now. Angst is behind me and it’s now time to return pen to paper or — most likely […]
An autumn of firsts. Sparks – my first novel – is now published as a Kindle Edition. It got its first editorial review. It has now also gotten its first Goodreads and Amazon reviews. Hopefully, they aren’t the last. I’m thrilled that the first reviews are very positive – especially since they are from people […]
Blessed are those among us who have enough to share. That is my aspiration, as it is I believe, for all of us who care. Happy Thanksgiving!
Previously, I thought I had a way to portray dual timelines–vignettes. Now I know that they will work for some cases, but not for all. I have to use the best technique for story advancement. It may be a flashback. It may be one or more scenes. It could be a chapter. It could even be […]
I love creating stories with intelligent heroines–especially the ones for whom the television is simply their largest computer monitor. However, the backstory for the heroine in my new novel is giving me fits. How can I hide a crucial piece of her personal history from her? If it’s anywhere on the World Wide Web, […]
Here I am, swimming in the published author pool. The view from here is surreally different. I’m not quite the same person I was before last week. I can now point to a piece of work I have finished and launched into the world for all to see – perhaps even read. 🙂 It’s gratifying to […]
Champagne anyone? Sparks is done–sent off into the world to pursue its destiny.I’ve put a permanent line through the ‘publish Sparks’ item on my list. Now I can fully focus on the next story. Except that… I hadn’t realized that readers would get so attached to Gabrielle and Jarin. Friends ask what their next story […]
It apparently isn’t enough to keep up with all the drama the characters in my new story are creating for themselves. Now I am muddying the waters by interweaving their dramas and making each of them instruments in each other’s dilemma. Insanity. I don’t know why the writing is taking me in that direction, but […]
It’s good that my nights are filled with dreams about my new story. I hardly have time to work on it during the day. Writing to my dreams saves me the time of figuring the story out during the day—and then writing. My days are consumed with the logistics of publishing Sparks. It’s a complicated dance […]
When writing my first book, I would hear others say that the second one is harder. I had to toss those words out of my brain because even the first draft of the first book was hard enough. I’ve recently started drafting the second book and I saw that those folks were right. I now […]
