Reading Time: 2 Mins I spent the majority of my writing time over the last two days composing a new draft of a query letter for Suddenly Normal. I had been introduced to this agent already and this opportunity to query came with a request for fifty pages, and they did not have to be…
Category: Characters
The Family Trees
Reading Time: 5 Mins Family Day is complicated for me. I find myself today feeling nostalgic for what family once was to me, angry at what it became and grateful for what it now is. My life with my daughter and fiancée is amazing and I would not change a thing. Things are amicable with…
Meeting Your Characters
Reading Time: 1 Min Yesterday I found myself writing a scene and it took a turn I didn’t expect and I needed a new character that I hadn’t planned for to perform a certain task. My general first rule for characters is to not overwhelm the reader with names to remember (my first completed manuscript…
Turkey Time
Reading Time: 3 mins If you’ve seen my post introducing Goebbels the Turkey, then you’ll know I’ve got a little creative writing project going on outside of my focus on the main manuscript. It’s a bit of fun, gets me out of my head and getting easy words on the page pretty much daily and…
Goebbels The Turkey
Reading Time: 4 mins Ah Goebbels, my old friend. Goebbels The Turkey was a blog idea I had back around April and May of 2013 and it was going to be the story of a turkey who has a friend go missing, conspicuously, around Thanksgiving. It was a bit of a lark at the time…