Okay, so actual writing might be slow-going, but idea generation is kicking into over-drive. I woke up this morning with a flood of ideas for the second half of the book. I don’t know why, but I tend to have my most productive brainstorming sessions when I’m in this strange state of semi consciousness a […]
I’m currently working on one of the more eventful days in the story. So many things go down here, I think it will probably take me another five chapters to get through them all. Good news is, when I’m done with this sequence, I should be at the halfway point in the manuscript. Here’s a […]
Just finished Chapter 15 which introduces Eli’s father, Scooter Park. Usually when I come up with a character, they spring 100% out of my own brain. But occasionally, I’ll take inspiration from an actual person. For the past few weeks, I’ve been watching actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan on Friday Night In With The Morgans, and […]
So normally I get most of my work done on my manuscripts when my kids are at school and I can write free of distraction. Needless to say, with my boys now being home twenty-four seven due to school closures resulting from a flipping pandemic, progress on book four is pretty damn slow. But I’m […]
42,000 words in and finishing up Chapter 14, “The Spark.” There’s some heated stuff going on in this one. And some dancing. I can’t seem to write a romance novel without throwing in a dancing scene. The truth behind the fiction on this one is that I can’t dance for shit and would secretly love […]
I’m halfway through Chapter 12, “The Marguerite.” Writing this one has been a nice change of pace for me because much of the action of the story so far has taken place at Eli’s apartment, and the scene I’m working on now in 12 finds Lily having lunch with her country singer mother at a […]
Sometimes I get stuck on a paragraph. Sometimes I rewrite a chapter three times. Sometimes I rub the shit out of my eyebrows. Sometimes I get confused about which path to take. Sometimes the words come out sounding right but feeling wrong. Sometimes, a lot of times, I read books that are so much […]
At first there was only rocking, the gentle swaying of a ship. Then he took her hand, and there was magic in his grip. But tricky fate divided what was once a bonded pair. So, the father sent her an angel with his answer to a prayer.
22,000 words in. Just finished Chapter 7, and chronologically, Day 1 in the novel. Thank fuck. Eli and Lilys’ arrangement is supposed to last three weeks, so I better move the plot along or this book is going to start looking like a George R.R. Martin novel. Problem is Day 2 is Christmas. How can […]
And another underwear thing… I spent ten minutes today trying to figure out whether a man would typically wear them under skinny jeans. The consensus on various web forums is generally no. Thank you to the anonymous few who’ve already posed these questions to the internet, making it possible for me to sleep tight knowing […]