Yep, I’m that kind of a woman. So, yesterday I’m writing and creating a post for this blog. As I’m sitting there typing away, all the electricity goes out in my in-home office. I walk out of my office and notice there’s electricity in the kitchen and living room, but no electricity in my bedroom. Okay, the problem isn’t an outage, I realize and has something more to do with my house. My hubby’s at work and I’m home alone with my eldest daughter and granddaughter, but how help

Sorry for the late post, but I have been writing and getting a lot on paper. This is day two of my blog on my writing process of writing a new book from beginning to end in 30 days. Today I focused on milieu. The reason I focused on milieu is because after hooking a reader with the first chapter, I want them to ‘live’ inside the story along with my characters. I want them to breathe the air and hear the wheels of the carriage as it rolls. You might be asking what is milieu? M

Day One Part Two I decided to break this day up into separate postings, as some may find it easier to read shorter pieces of information rather than one large post. The reason I’m breaking down parts of this chapter is to bring notice to the things I focus on when writing the first chapter of any book. Of course, your book idea is going to be different from mine. This means that what you need to focus on are chapter basics while I’m breaking things down. Later when you’re wri

As promised, I’m going to walk visitors to my blog on my process of writing a new novel. In my previous post, I mentioned a book idea using the characters from my Dardian Dreshaj series of books. But here’s the first lesson I learned when writing. Writing is time and time is money. Simply put this means I want to complete the rough draft of a manuscript in a limited amount of time, which in this case is 30 days. So what I need to do to accomplish this goal is to listen to the