Writing Your Obituary for Fun and Fantasy
Worldwide bestselling author and philanthropist Barbara Meyers passed from natural causes just three days shy of her 112th birthday.
Category: Writing
A Writer With ADD
Welcome to the unplanned career of a disorganized (but talented) 😊 writer with ADD who makes laughable promises to herself (“As God is my witness, I will post on social media no less than three times a week”) and wonders how she ever managed to publish twenty or so books in the first place.
IMPOSTER SYNDROME?
IMPOSTER SYNDROME? Imposter syndrome? I seriously thought this was a joke. The term is used a lot amongst creatives, but I never understood exactly what it was or what it felt like until last week. Imposter syndrome, I thought, denoted a lack of confidence or belief in one’s own abilities…
The Animal Cover Dilemma
The Animal Cover Dilemma Ever since the conception of Animal, I’ve had a vision of the cover. Nothing but the hero’s face, half of it in animal form. The title. My name. Nothing else. Even though I haven’t finished the book, I find sometimes having a cover helps me get…
Animal and The Curse of Threes
Below is the back story for my work in progress entitled Animal. Although I may never use this in the final version of the book, I had to know where it all started. The Curse Emerald Akira MacCallum woke early, Colin Lancaster’s parting words still ringing in her head. Twenty…
The Color of Nothing Release Day!
I killed my mother.
That’s what I think the next morning when I see her on the floor in the kitchen with a puddle of orange juice floating around her.
The Color of Nothing Coming Soon Part 4
What I hope for the real life Darla is the same thing I hoped for my fictional Darla. That she’d get out of her own way. That she’d stop giving up on herself. Because inside both of them is something special, and I want to see them both succeed.
The Color of Nothing Coming Soon #3
I began to hope Darla could succeed. I’d been writing a fictional version (originally entitled Sneakers for obvious reasons) inspired by my experience with Darla.
The Color of Nothing Coming Soon #2
As things began to deteriorate, my husband always said, “We got her too late.” Maybe he was right. By the time I met Darla, her path was already set.
If You Stay. A Work in Progress
“I remember the first time he brought you around. I was half in the bag at the time—hell, maybe more like three quarters of the way in, but I remember. He stood up a little straighter, tried to act like a gentleman, even if he didn’t have any idea what that looked like.”
