Coming soon, a new novel by me! Featuring romance and redemption with a mix of characters thrown in, including pirates and preachers, slaves and servants, farmers and females on the frontier, “You Belong to Me” is set in Virginia, 1748. What’s it about? Well, here’s the tentative back cover blurb: She bought him to work… Continue reading Announcing a New Book
Category: romance
Some Thoughts on Research and Some Other Random Stuff
A couple of weeks ago, I told you about some updates. One thing I didn’t mention is the book I started last spring, the one I blogged about. The series on that story is all here, and each post begins with “Pondering A Story”, if you want to check them out.The reason I haven’t mentioned Miss Mercy and Gabriel… Continue reading Some Thoughts on Research and Some Other Random Stuff
Updates
Everyone is always asking me, “Are you still writing?” To that, I like to say, “Still writing? I haven’t stopped.” 🙂 Read on, and you’ll see what I mean.Growing up, I had a habit I want to tell you about. During a boring class, such as math, instead of doing the work assigned to me,… Continue reading Updates
Pondering A Story Part 4
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to my blog. For the last few weeks, I have been attempting to begin a story using Randy Ingermanson’s Ten Steps of Design found on his website http://www.advancedfictionwriting.com.This is week 4. Thus, I have put together step 4, which is taking the summary paragraph that I wrote last week and writing a paragraph… Continue reading Pondering A Story Part 4
Pondering A Story Part 3
If you have been following this blog, you’ll remember I’ve been pondering a story using The Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson. In Pondering A Story I attempted step 1. In Pondering A Story Part 2 I attempted step 2. Today’s post may be shorter, but I’m going to attempt step 3.Step 3 is where we work on discovering who… Continue reading Pondering A Story Part 3
Pondering A Story Part 2
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to the blog. Last week I talked about using the Snowflake Method by Randy Ingermanson to begin a story. If you missed last week’s post, you can go read it here. This week, I would like to take that one step further.First, I wrote a summary sentence. To recap from last week, here… Continue reading Pondering A Story Part 2
Random Thoughts on a Valentine’s Day
Okay, so I tried to think of something profound to say about love. After all, it is Valentine's Day and social media is buzzing with pics of lovy-dovey sayings and gifts. Nothing came to me, though. I started to feel discouraged, but then I remembered all that has been accomplished so far today in my… Continue reading Random Thoughts on a Valentine’s Day