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 […]
Last week, I cried so much that I couldn’t see straight. Oh wait – I couldn’t see straight because I didn’t have my glasses. Scratch that. Let’s just say I cried buckets. Not because I had to start over with the narrative for my new story. Though with 10K words already written, having to go back […]
Vestiges of footsteps. Not always easy to discern. Mostly ephemeral; sometimes, as in concrete, impossible to remove. A footstep may take one back to what was, on to what will be, or off on a detour to the unexpected; but always to a new version of place. Some footsteps lead to a solitary journey. Others, […]
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 […]
After almost a year of disciplined, structured writing time, I find myself finished with Sparks and at a loss for what to do next. There are several more character sketches I can write. My author platform needs work. There are even a couple of short stories I can finish. I’ve two novels in the pipe […]
Men are fascinating. She needed no other entertainment, content to spend entire evenings observing them, conversing with them. They were so uncomprehendingly ‘other’. The more complicated ones were disturbingly good at keeping their thoughts to themselves and she sensed those thoughts roiling behind carefully managed expressions. Just out of reach. At 5 feet 8 inches, […]
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 love the water. I don’t care if it’s a swimming pool, lake or ocean. I love being in it. What’s the problem then? I can dog paddle, I know the freestyle stroke and every now and then – I can actually turn my head and breathe. That’s right – I really can’t swim. Unfortunately, […]
Seeing as how I’m an La. girl, you’re probably wondering why any reference to the Super Bowl is conspicuously absent. That’s because the party’s been on since Sunday. But now that I’m here, laissez les bon temp roulez! (Yes we know, we know – it should be ‘r’, not ‘z’. But it’s ‘z’ – so […]
