The Dream of Writing in Solitude

This week, I began chapter three of my fourth, and final novel of the Blackbeard Mysteries. I began chapter two, two years ago. I started out great guns, then, I got stuck on a single, short sentence.…

Visiting Lives Who Are Not

This post first appeared on September 20, 2010 who is to say a character is not alive because it didn't arrive in the usual way once again my fragile body has taken me away from my books, research, school…

Weeding the Garden

This post first appeared on February 28, 2010 when the words get in the way of a good story I recently spent two weeks on a chapter that I really liked. It had great dialogue, my favorite thing to write,…

It's my mess and I know where everything is

This entry first appeared on February 4, 2010 Research is my favorite part of writing, but boy can it get me waylaid. I'm doing most of my hard research now for the fourth Blackbeard book Blackbeard's…

Thank You Bloggers

What's happening on the writing front Dear Lattice, You have no idea how excited I am about your blog entry. Being new at this, I've been waiting for someone to catch on and communicate. I'm especially…

Hello Friends

This post first appeared on January 17, 2010 love hearing from you Dear #1. Thank you so much for reading my blog and writing to me. I'm very new at blogging and have to practice writing on it a lot more.…

Happy Thanksgiving

This post first appeared on November 18, 2009 I'm getting a new hip tomorrow, November 19th, so I won't be hopping around for a while I want to wish every reader a Happy Thanksgiving. I will be healing…

Happy Halloween

This post first appeared on October 31, 2009 What a great time to be a character in a book Happy Halloween everyone. Today I am dressed and made up to be Mrs. Raccoon. I really am Chester Raccoon's mom…

The Beginning

This post first appeared on October 27, 2009 my brothers were my reason for writing My parents were so busy after school, they often couldn't take time to hear what I had to say about school or my complaints…

Was, Would, Could

This post first appeared on October 25, 2009 I've discovered the words "was", "would", and "could" muck up a story I've discovered that I have run into a pattern of using the words was, would, and could…