It took me a little while to unwind from the long drive. I paced my parents condo for a few minutes to stretch my legs and chatted with my mother while she put water in a pot for tea. The condo was bright and airy. It had a wide open floor plan and nice big windows overlooking the inlet. The sun was shining on the water. casting a light shadow in ripples as the water gently lapped against ...
In day-to-day living changes are subtle and often go unnoticed. We move about our business and seldom reflect. Each moment is a story unfolding that often goes untold. For each new thing we learn, each story we hear or create, there are thousands more. Like a photograph, we capture but a portion of what is there. The muse of a writer is always there, whether lurking in the shadows or ...
What is it that keeps me from writing? I am pretty sure it is the creative process at work. Just because I do not have paper and pen in hand does not mean that I am not working on my writing. Most of us work on our books in our minds and during our daily lives way before we commit anything to paper (or keyboard). The development of a story or character comes to us through our muse, and ...
