Firstly, a huge thank you to all my followers, subscribers and readers for reading, commenting, liking and dropping by my blog and website over the last fifteen years. It is quite the milestone and I am extremely grateful to everyone of you. Writing is a lonely task,...
Although, as a Gemini, I am supposedly an air sign, it is water that draws me. It is the element that resonates deep in my soul, it relaxes and calms me. I was told by my parents that on my first trip to the 'seaside' I crawled into the waves without a care. My father...
Many of us are in a quandary over whether to participate in National Novel Writing Month this year, or not. After reading all the documentation, I have decided to enter only a manual word count figure, (the same as every year) and not copy and paste any of my work,...
I'm often asked how do I come up with the ideas. I think this post may be of interest to writers and readers alike. One thing that sparks my imagination is a writing prompt. This can be a selection of words, a picture, the starting sentence, or a title. Recently I was...
Photo by Keira Burton on Pexels.com One of the greatest parts of being a member of this community of writers is the connecting, supporting and encouraging of each other. There are virtual and in-person groups across the world, numerous conferences and retreats, all...
We were set a prompt at our writer's meeting, and I thought you may enjoy the story I created from it. This was the prompt: What's in a Name? Build a character's traits based on the meaning of their first or last name. Look up name meanings. Write a scene or story...
1. Where did the idea for this novel come from? The novel originated as a short story that I wrote in a creative writing class my senior year of college. The character of Lazer was loosely based on a friend of mine who played in a heavy...
What spurred you into writing stories in the first place? I was always a big reader, which was red flag number one. Aside from reading though, I had always been writerly, I just didn’t know it would eventually manifest into fiction novels. I am one of those people...
1) Where do you find inspiration? Does place or observation, or both influence your writing? Ideas come to me from everywhere, both from external and internal sources. It's a ceaseless flood of ideas really that I experience, evoked by a wide range of random stimuli...