I got quite a surprise when writing today. One of my characters is gay. I didn’t set out to write him that way. It seems he had a lover who has left him. A personal betrayal, it’s also a betrayal that affects the larger story. There was only one problem. I had no idea how […]
I’ve had it with distracted drivers. Too many folks are texting, putting on makeup, even eating while behind the wheel. Crawling along crowded streets. Racing down freeways. Dragging the rest of us along, they’re accidents on their way to a happening. I’ve had it and I’m spoiling for some Face Time. That’s right. I’m seeing […]
Follow the yellow brick road! Hopefully, I’ll fare better than the travelers who took the original one to Oz. As long as I avoid the poppy fields, it’s a win. The only question is whether there will be an audience beyond the curtain. Publishing statistics indicate that the most likely scenario is to pull back […]
The distant crashing of ocean waves accents crickets chirping in the lawn, and the occasional croak of a nearby frog; tonight’s version of nature’s orchestra. We lounge in the over-sized reading chaise; he, with his iPad, me, busy with the keyboard on my new Duo. Encircling me with his arm, he looks over my shoulder. […]
The I’s have it: Imagination sparks ideas; inciting invention, or at least innovation. Ingenuity, once inflamed, illuminates the way toward the next, higher iteration of inspiration. A spiraling interval, rarely is it so ill-fated as to be infected with inertia or encumbered by inaction. Should such be incurred, use it as merely an intermission, an […]
Warrior. That’s what the Cowardly Lion is in comparison with me last week. I’d been hiding from my manuscript since that Monday. More than one hundred pages into a four hundred page rewrite, and I choked – scared off by this one scene. I had outlined it, decomposed it, and placed its elements in my […]
I have written nothing this week. Absolutely nothing. Not a paragraph, not even a sentence. But…do tweets count? I’ve written lots of those! I don’t have writer’s block. I’m so jazzed, that I’m having fun researching. I’m engaged, plugged in,. So what’s the problem? I’m Tweedicted! So much information – quirky, thought provoking, funny; sometimes […]
