As a blogger and science nerd, I try to keep up with science news from a variety of sources. Oddly, that curiosity rarely benefits my writing. My writing style follows a diagonal on the chart below: Lawful Plantser, True Plantser, and Chaotic Plotter. And that’s pretty much how my research goes, too. I start with… Continue reading A Writer’s Serendipity or How Research Saved My Book
Category: My Soul to Keep
Character Reveal: Beryl Clarke
The character reveal is a feature on my website. Characters from my books (in print or works-in-progress) answer questions from a standard personality assessment test. Today’s character reveal: Beryl Lucille Clarke Mitchell. Beryl is Miranda’s aunt and mentor, and a protagonist of the Fellowship Dystopia series. Who Beryl had just turned fifty-two when she appeared in the first book… Continue reading Character Reveal: Beryl Clarke
When a Department Store was an Experience
Department Stores, they ain’t what they used to be. There was a time when a trip to the department store was an experience.
Unimpressed to Loving the Blue Ridge Mountains
A soft blue haze enveloped the first mountains I ever saw. They didn’t impress me much. In the distance, they looked like rolling hills. Then came the drive up the mountains, through the mountains, and along the ridge. Each curve, dip, and climb yielded breath-taking vistas of forested mountains, bald knobs, and valleys swathed in… Continue reading Unimpressed to Loving the Blue Ridge Mountains
A Frustrated High School Teacher and Disinterested Students Created a Legacy
A frustrated teacher and disinterested students created a magazine, an anthology, a teaching method, and a legacy. Foxfire also inspired a character.