Honestly, I was kinda blogged out—until, after a multitude of phone calls and emails to kick start a Leave Of Absence from my night job, the following thought occurred to me: “Rainey, you forgot to give characters in your new WIP health challenges, and/or physical limitations. Oh, for Heaven….” Below, I’ve listed those that came…
Below is the opening setting from, The Glass Rainbow, (Burke, 2010). Note how Mr. Burke incorporates sight, sound, smell and taste, thereby immersing readers in the narrator’s location. The room I had rented in an old part of Natchez seemed more reflective of New Orleans than a river town in Mississippi…the courtyard outside touched with…
Every year about this time, Fred, my muse and history buff, and I meet. This year, I located him hanging in the closet. He assured me that many people have skeletons there. “Have I ever told you about my years in Cripple Creek?” Chewing on a piece of Halloween candy, I shook my head. “In…
At this very moment, I think I’m done. I’m at the, How-in-the-world-did-my-fingertips-get-on-this-key board-exhausted stage. You know the self-accusatory questions: “Do I have mono?” “Do I have COVID?” “Was there too much chamomile in my tea?” “What’s happening?” “Where are my ideas?” Therefore, I’m making this blog simple. Yet super valuable. UPCOMING CELEBRATIONS: Is it a…
My fellow customer arches his bushy eyebrows, the left one forming a tent top.