Novel Update 6: Fiction sample

Cooper stood in the elevator nervously shifting his weight from one foot to the other. At the Fifth floor, he walked out and carefully pulled the collar up on his leather jacket as… Continue reading →

Novel Update #5

Well I’m pleased to say that I have been busy this week… WRITING!! Actually writing and editing. I jumped back into my manuscript Fallout , which I hadn’t touched since October once November… Continue reading →

Novel Update #4: Getting lost…

In my ongoing editing journey for my yet-to-be-published Novel (Yes hope is alive and well again), I found something so comfortable in getting lost in my characters today. The mainstay of Fallout, is… Continue reading →

Novel Update #3: Chapter Checklist

I attempted to go back to bed this morning after getting the family up and out the door. I failed. Unfortunately this has been a tough week of sleep for me. Dealing with… Continue reading →

Novel Update #2: Farewell to Characters

Remember how I complained the other day about the Writers’ fest I attended last weekend claiming to feel inadequate in the company of other writers? Well I have to admit that I did… Continue reading →

The Novel

I have been working on my second official novel since 2007. It is a lengthy timeline that I am not particularly proud of but that seems to be my track record (since Novel… Continue reading →

Adrift

Sometimes stumbling down memory lane is a great comfort. This summer I was whisked back into my past when I came across my teenage Seventeen fashion magazine collection, during a house clean. How hilarious it was… Continue reading →

Lost in Fog

Today I don’t feel like a writer. I know I write and I love to write and frankly I don’t know what else I can do since it is so ingrained in me.… Continue reading →

Unspoken Speaking

Hello Friends. As I have reported recently (Novel Update #18), I am deeply entrenched in my revisions for Draft #3 of my manuscript. So I thought it might be nice to fill The… Continue reading →

Overwriting

My wordy words are too be sliced, My heart a piece it goes, to turn a manuscript to book, to hear how it all flows,   Is painstaking at best you see. It’s… Continue reading →