I’ve also begun to wonder if there’s a trend for unlikeable and unrelatable characters. I’ve discovered so many titles where my primary reaction is “why should I care?” About the characters or the story. Sometimes the writing can get me to The End, but it’s a tedious process ending in ultimate disappointment.
Even when she flinched at the touch of a probe or a needle on her skin, her thought was always the same. I don’t feel anything.
Worldwide bestselling author and philanthropist Barbara Meyers passed from natural causes just three days shy of her 112th birthday.
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? 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 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…
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…
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.
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.
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.
