Well, 2013 is drawing to a close–I hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! I’m on vacation, which is just bliss I must say.
Category: Writing
How to quickly change problematic characters
The bread and butter of fiction is to create characters that take on a life of their own. Sometimes, though, those spur-of-the-moment actions break your
Sympathy vs Empathy
It’s very easy to sympathize with your own characters. You created them, and you know them more intimately than any character written by anybody else–everything
First draft and editing–back at work on Before and After the Wedding
It’s funny how each part of the writing process brings such different skills and benefits to it–and downsides too, I suppose. Having just experimented with
How I invent characters
Characters are mysterious creatures, in a way, and I’m sure there are nearly as many ways to invent them as there are authors. For me,
Exhilaration and fear of a First Draft
There’s something almost magical about sitting down to write something new. I often do it with very little idea of what I’m going to be
Before and After the Wedding done!
Before and After the Wedding, my angsty marriage-in-trouble romance, is DONE and off to my first readers! Yay! I’ve been celebrating with some delicious Lindt
Amalfi Coast
I’m nearing the end of my edits of Before and After the Wedding. My characters are back at the beautiful Amalfi Coast in Italy and
Tortured characters—why do we love them?
Or perhaps I ought to say, “why do I love them?”. Because I do. Just last week I was down with a nasty cold, and
Italy and Japanese Cartoons
I’m close to finishing my Italian-placed romance novel (tentatively titled Before and After the Wedding), and yesterday I was perusing some of the early scenes