I’m deep in the depths of editing my manuscripts from November of last year. I’m reading through them in full, making notes, marking mistakes, and leaving lots of what if questions behind for myself. The idea is that once I’m done I will have a new point to start from on the next draft. One of these manuscripts is small and one is big, as you might have guessed, the smaller one needs the most work. This is the one…
When we lived back on the island I had a wild idea that if my husband just downloaded the app for the local grocery store we frequented, it could cut down on his frustrations while shopping. At that time he worked a block away from the store, and if we ran out of something or needed a last minute item I could text him before quitting time and he’d run over and pick things up. The issue that we always…
I read a lot of books this May, most were from one series. Enjoy! Cartographers — Nell Young’s greatest passion is maps, just like her father, Dr Young who is a legend in the field. But Nell hasn’t spoken to her father since the day he fired her from her position at the NYPL. When she gets news of her father’s death she’s not sure how to feel, and when she finds the very map he fired her over it…
When I begin to write a story, sometimes I have an idea of what my characters will look like, and sometimes I don’t. Sometimes, the vision that I have is only partial. Perhaps a key feature of the person I’ll be writing about, because it will matter a great deal to the plot. Other times, characters pop up. Sometimes they help move the plot along, the clerk at the shop, the barista in the cafe. Other times they appear on…