It’s Fiction Friday
To Lacey Bloom an emotional conversation and a hand grenade were the same. Which is why she avoided those types of talks.
To Lacey Bloom an emotional conversation and a hand grenade were the same. Which is why she avoided those types of talks.
It’s that time of month again. You get a free peek inside my next release. You’ve met Merci and Lacey Bloom. Today, you get to meet Krista. She’s the character that’s loosely based on me, and I have a hard time liking her. In fact, writing her took more care and concentration than writing her …
It’s flash fiction week over on the blog. Check out another quick read written by me.
Enjoy this story I wrote last month. I’d love to hear what you think of it.
If you follow me on Facebook, you get a monthly update of my writing projects. If you don’t, you’re going to get one now. I’m an author so I write. I wish I could say that I only write things I LOVE and am jazzed to sit behind my laptop day-in and day-out pounding away …
Writing is my calling. Sometimes the words pour directly from my heart onto the page. Other times, it’s my soul that gets exposed. Those creations are often the ones that remain secreted away in a spiral notebook or journal, too private for general consumption. A few of them make it into a document on the …
When it rains, it pours. Manuscripts in need of editing, that is. Each in a different stage of editing: developmental, line and copy edits, oh my. It’s a three-layer parfait. Of doom. The work in progress novel must be ready for submission by the beginning of May. And it’s rough. It’s missing crucial elements. It …
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I’ve got the blues. Since sending my two fiction books to beta readers in late January, I have been floundering for true writing direction. Fiction or nonfiction? That is the question. Let’s face it, most people who dream of writing, dream of writing a knock-out, impossible-to-put-down novel. They want to weave the perfect story with …
When I wrote “Dream Architect,” I just sat down and started writing. I knew it couldn’t be longer than 12,000 words, but when my word counter showed I’d reached 12,000 words, I wasn’t finished with the story. So I wrote until it was finished. The result is – several thousand words were cut from the …