No story goes along smoothly for the main character. In fact, how a character responds to adversity is how we get attached to the people in the novels we love. If they don’t struggle to get what they need, we won’t want to read to the end. There are innumerable ways for conflict to occur…
Would you want your ashes heading into space? Who decides? The New Horizon spacecraft is carrying Clyde Tombaugh’s ashes. He is the astronomer who discovered Pluto. Reading this fact in an article, made me stop and think a bit about who decides what is added as extra payload for such a scientific endeavor and how…
I’d like to talk about retirement. I’d like to retire too, but since that’s not coming anytime soon (unless my books start really rolling off the digital shelves–feel welcome to participate in precipitating my early retirement), I’ll just talk about it. First, you must consider as early as possible that you will retire one day…
Two sides to writing. It is Wednesday evening and for two days running I have not been writing on my #wip. Arggg! I even am a bit late on my blog. Not good. So what is the status on Book 4 of Students of Jump you ask. Well, so far it is the longest book…
A few days ago, I went to a band camp concert. My daughter was one of the players. As I sat there listening to the rising and falling notes, flutes coming in as clarinets drop away, background drums rolling in crescendo and tubas filling the brief spaces in between, my heart racing and relaxing with…
Dancing with the daffodils I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.Continuous as the…
We’ve been dealing with repeated rainstorms lately, several weeks’ worth, actually. Water is gathering on our sidewalk and pooling there for days because the ground is so saturated. But the last two days have been dry and warm, so off to the lake we went to waterski. The lake we usually go to was over…
Find at Amazon, Smashwords, Kobo, Barnes & Noble & more. So you have some story or novel planning to do. You’re feeling a bit pressed for time or pressed with concern for writer’s block. Try a classic story line and build your story around it. A. A table has been dropped by your character’s house….
