I’m using this year’s NaNoWrimo to make the second draft for my upcoming novel Guardians of Masks and Memory. Right now, I’m doing research, redoing outlines, filling out worldbuilding questionnaires and character questionnaires, etc. I know that some other people are doing their own prep work and feelings range from overwhelmed to totally ready or […]
I would like to be more like the character Midge from the Marvelous Ms. Maisel. Let me explain. The show starts with this woman who seems to have it all. Picture New York City in the 1950s and there is this woman who went to college, had a ball, met the love of her life, […]
I haven’t declared my project for Camp NaNoWriMo yet, but this July I’m trying to keep it casual. I’m currently editing my book Guardians of Masks and Memory, so that I can self publish in December 2019. However, I’ve had this itch to just write. Not edit and clean up a manuscript, but to just […]
“When did you first see yourself in literature?” My mother says that I started reading when I was less than two years old. The book was Baby Bop Where Are My Shoes? She walked up on me in a room and saw me by myself, with my back turned to her reading aloud. It is […]
Deniece Williams sang a song that struck a chord in me and it made me want to create a character that inhabited the meaning I received from the lyrics. “Morning light, silken dream to flightAs the darkness gave way to dawnYou’ve survived, now your moment has arrivedNow your dream has finally been born” When I […]
