Sometimes a novelist research allows a writer to write what they don’t know. This is one source of inspiration for the first novel in the Fellowship Dystopia.
Category: My Soul to Keep
First Lines From the top 100 Dystopian Books
This post is part of a monthly series that offers the first paragraphs of dystopian books currently in the top 100 dystopian novels on Amazon.
A Writer’s Serendipity or How Research Saved My Book
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
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.