Writing Process
Angel of Mercy is the first novel I published, but it is not my first novel. I’ve been writing since I was 10 years old. Because I began writing before I had a home computer, my first fiction manuscripts were written longhand in a series of notebooks. I kept these notebooks over the years in…
Ask 10 authors where they write, and you’ll probably get 10 answers. For example: Some authors write in cafés. I would find this distracting to the extreme, and I would be unable to concentrate, yet alone relax, with all the people coming in and out and engaged in conversations. Some authors write outdoors. If the…
Naming fiction characters is like naming a baby. The person you’re naming will be stuck with that name for life. Or, in the case of fictional characters, potentially for centuries. In fact, a quick web search shows that some writers take naming fiction characters more seriously than naming children. I say this because I found…
