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  • What Women Want from Reading

    July 12, 2009

    • It took me a long time to feel I was in a position to write fiction of a more rounded type (previously I did snappy, plot driven short stories inspired by Raold Dahl), until my mid thirties in fact. And only after my mother had died. I miss her every day, but losing her freed my imagination, and also made it possible for me to write about sex.Which is a good thing, as reading about sex is all the ...
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  • Black, White and Shades of Gray

    June 16, 2009

    • Last Saturday, Gennita Low was our guest speaker at my RWA chapter meeting. She's a roofer by day, a romantic suspense author by night. Talk about a strange mix of professions. She discussed writing romantic suspense, and stressed the need for emotional involvement.Everyone, Low says, has fears. The task of the author is to channel and use the emotion the fears generate. You might never have been ...
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  • Write a book one sentence, one scene, one chapter at a time

    November 25, 2008

    • Some people are intimidated away from writing a book because they think we authors have the whole book in our heads when we start. Heck, most of us don't have the whole book in our heads when we finish. They think that it's all there, we write it down and we're done. LOL. Don't I wish.Some of us (like myself) prefer to work with an outline. I've discovered that I like to work with a VERY detailed ...
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