Digging In: When Your Writing Is Not Flowing Or Life Has Your Confidence Beaten
When your writing life is a bit cloudy or filled with rain, what do you do to dig down and keep on writing?
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Book Review: Murder on the Lake of Fire
Murder on the Lake of Fire by author Mikel J. Wilson follows the story of Emory Rome, a Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent, and a private detective named Jeff Woodard. Together they solve the murder of Brit, an ice skater from Barter Ridge, a small town near Knoxville Tennessee. Overall, the book has well-defined characters and…
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Why Complex Female Characters Make For Good Literature
All good stories have strong characters that are the driving force in the narrative. Without well-rounded characters who possess their own agendas, a story lacks the gravitational pull that pulls the reader in for more. My beta-readers for Dark Paradise all comment on the powerful, independent nature of the book’s female characters. Some men seem…
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How Do I Celebrate Achieving a Writing Goal?
I share my success with the people who make it possible, especially my wife and my daughter. They are constantly inspiring me. They give me the room to be a writer and the things I learn from both of them come out in everything I write. I know it sounds cheesy, but getting the affirmation…
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3 Favorite Reads of 2017
After some reflection, I’ve compiled a list of my favorite reads in 2017 and why I enjoyed them. Comment below if you’ve read these books, or with suggestions of your own favorite reads last year. The Highway Kind: Tales of Fast Cars, Desperate Drivers, and Dark Roads: I love this anthology of short stories about crimes…
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Submissions Blog Hop With Chrys Fey
Topic: How to rewire our brains to enjoy the submission process. Response: And why not treat yourself to chocolate or something else you love for doing submissions? Mostly I get kind rejections and it does give a rush of dopamine or whatever makes you euphoric after sending out the query letter and/or manuscript. I like…
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Why I Like My Genre: IWSG’s Monthly Post
I love the idea of piecing together a puzzle, first of all. Showing the thought processes of a detective or someone, even a regular person, must go through to solve a mystery/problem, creates a feeling of comradeship between the main character and the reader. I have felt this connection many times with various characters and…
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Insecure Writer’s Support Group: Blog Hop
Check out this Insecure Writer’s Support Group blog hop for more.
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Goodreads Review
Dark Paradise by Gene Desrochers | My rating: 5 of 5 stars Very exciting look into the world of the Caribbean and the darkness beneath the cruise ships and surfers. This thriller explores a man’s search for himself in his homeland, when that homeland has moved on and becomes almost unrecognizable. Boise brings us into the…
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Planning for Writing: January’s ISWG’s Question
This month’s question on the Insecure Writer’s Support Group sounded good to this writer: What steps have you taken or plan to take to put a schedule in place for your writing and publishing? This is a fun bulleted list (funny that bulleted is underlined in red but appears as the correct verb when I…
