From the start of my blog here, I have been honest as to where I get lots of my books’ material. It’s not usually just off the top of my head. Indeed is entirely making anything up even, honestly, really possible?
Musings On Muses
Writing Wit And Wisdom (And Reality Checks)
If you cannot impress readers while remaining true to yourself, you are doing writing wrong.
This 1994 Cast
“Fiction” is almost never entirely “fictitious.” As my uncle once told me: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.” (I want that in my obituary. 😉 )
A Bunch Of Characters
If you think I’m going to be revealing any of the real-life people I know who may be the basis for, or whom I drew upon for, the fictional characters? I won’t be doing that anytime soon. (Do I appear to be completely insane?)
“It’s the romantic in me”
No, I haven’t absconded with the church funds. Nor have I run off with a senator’s wife. Nor have I killed a man. Nor any combination.
“You are not really in the 13th Vermont regiment!”
If history never stands still, neither does how we remember it…
Memoirs Of A Life And Writings
Georgian English writers, and their American counterparts, loved to use elongated, and complicated, often windy, paragraphs, and had a habit, of employing commas, all over the place.
The Unfinished Work
Of course a writer may die with a book unfinished. We will all die with some matters unfinished. Life is always an unfinished work.
“Mrs. Rutherford, I hope you find life here as you expected?
Did you ever want to meet George Washington? That’s obviously not possible… and that’s why there are novels…
Not A Kids’ Game
I suppose as a result I have been rewarded to learn I have had readers from not only in the US, Britain, and France, and elsewhere in Europe, but also in South America, India, and the Middle East – Lebanon, especially – and other places.
When “The Future” Is Over
Sadly, it appears that “the future” we had hoped for two decades ago, is over.
“One of my favorite Psalms…”
Theodore Roosevelt once wrote that if someone is “not familiar with the Bible, he has suffered a loss.” For an author, that is doubly true.
Summertime
And if Amazon can bury us all in Prime Day emails and ads…
Tuned Balloon
Seeing that post from her made me smile.
“While I like to hope I have changed your world…”
My guess is I have a modest flow of new novel readers only because as I have kept writing books I have also made sure I have regularly posted on my blog here: the two go hand in hand.
