It’s one-week post-surgery. Still sitting at least twenty-two hours chin to chest position, with ten to fifteen-minute breaks with head up to take the strain off the neck. So, how am I writing this? Nose to the keyboard and damn the torpedoes. Someone else, namely Robert or dear friend Lisa Kessler, will be correcting errors. …
It’s all about the eyes. As every writer will tell you, the eyes play an essential role in portraying characters’ emotions and behaviors in a story. Every shade of emotion: interest, boredom, disbelief, concern, joy, hate, disappointment, excitement, and a hundred more, are all revealed through the eyes. Romance writers are very savvy about the …
“The mountains are calling and I must go.” ~John Muir For weeks before my recent birthday, I wandered around the house saying, “the big trees are calling to me,” without even remembering the above John Muir quote. It was there though, deep in the recesses of my brain. Imagine my surprise when I rediscovered the …
“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive.” ~ Barry Lopez And sometimes only a love story will suffice. Love stories anchor us to the world as no other vehicle does. We discover our moral and ethical path as we honor another and ourselves. That is never truer than when we …
When I draft story, a new poem, or even occasionally when composing a letter, I consider how the reader might enter my writing. Will my words awaken them to something new, something familiar, or something dormant that rises to wakeful thoughts? Will a lasting impression or memory awaken, or will they scratch their heads in …
A love three hundred years in the making, but fortunately, it didn’t take that long to write. Although, some days it felt like I’d been at it for a decade. Today it’s available everywhere and I can’t wait for you to read it. A love three hundred years in the making ~ After being knocked …
A love three hundred years in the making — After being knocked out in battle, Angus Brian Cameron wakes in a terrifying new world with flying beasts, horseless carriages, crazy music, and strangely dressed people. Has he gone mad? When Angel Adair discovers a man in 1975’s San Francisco Lands End park dressed in little …
“In Wildness is the preservation of the world.” ~ Henry David Thoreau At the outset, I must acknowledge that I’m not a great hiker, definitely not a mountain or rock-climbing enthusiast, but I do find wilderness the only place where my internal batteries fully recharge. Therefore, a drive up a jutted dirt road not on …
I am so sorry to have dropped off the face of the earth for over a month now. I do have a very reasonable explanation. First, I must say that my life has taken a strange turn down a dark and twisted path. Doesn’t this sound like Snoopy (writer extraordinaire from the Peanuts comic strip,) …
Sex, sex, sex. Sex sells Everything. I’ll leave it to other experts to ponder whether that’s a bad or good thing. Although, I must admit to standing firmly in the “do not objectify women,” category. After all, I worked with a victim/witness program for ten years, and co-developed a woman’s self-awareness program. However, the entire …