I’ve beenback into working with my detectives for a few weeks now, but something was missing for me. I was going through the motions, getting the scenes done, putting in the mechanics of a plot change and altering the characters’ emotions and reactions due to those changes. Things were going well, but then a hit a new scene that needed to be highly emotional.
Now, I’m an emotional kind of person. In a lot of ways my emotions rule me which [...]

I went to lunch yesterday with Shelley Bradley, and we got to talking about my characters in my detective series. It’s no wonder I get a little stranger when I’m working on this series.
Maggie, heroine #1, is almost as OCD as Jack Nicholson in AS GOOD AS IT GETS and is always more put together than June Cleaver. She is also a stay at home mom who gets tremendous pleasure in doing things for others. Yes, I know, you already hate her just because [...]

It makes no difference who we are, or how others perceiv us, we all suffer from self-doubt on occasion. Funny, outgoing poeple may wonder or worry about being liked. They may think they aren’t entertaining enough? Writers and creative people worry that things they create will not be appreciated or accepted by others. There is something in each of our lives that has the power to reduce us to the feelings we had as kids where we just didn’t think [...]