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,
Tag: Writing
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
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
Developing Ideas or Why a frigging utility closet?
You start out with an idea (and where does it come from? A topic for another day…). It’s a small kernel, something simple. But how
What makes something erotic?
I got this question the other day and it got me thinking. There are probably, oh, about a million answers or so, but here’s one