Generation Xer. Pop culture blogger. Author of nostalgic stories with good morals, traditional values, and (spoiler alert) happy endings.
With my first novella in the hands of my editor, I’ve been focusing my time on a second novel. The idea for this story has been in my head for several years, and I’ve only just begun to get the ideas transferred out of my head and onto the page. I’ve had some conversations with…
When I write, I tend to work with a general idea or story line I’m in love with but never really have a solid ending in mind. I have an idea where I’d like it to go emotionally and a general idea of how I’d like to resolve things on that level, but I don’t…
For the first time in many years, I have a deadline on something I’m writing. The past two weeks, I’ve been focusing more than ever on completing my Christmas novella, The Journey of Joseph Winter. I am delivering it to my editor no later than October 28, and I want to make sure it is…
As I continue to work on the second draft of The Journey of Joseph Winter, I see it expanding in ways I couldn’t have imagined when I initially wrote it ten years ago. What started at a mere 6,000 words has now doubled to 12,000. My guess is, it will end up at 15,000-16,000 when…
When I first wrote my Christmas novella, The Journey of Joseph Winter, I was ten years younger. I thought I knew it all. I was indestructible. Well, flash forward ten years, and I can certainly say I never knew it all. I still only know a fraction of what I pretended to know back then,…