Gradually…Into Volume 2

May 23, 2018.Reading time 7 minutes.

As I go at it again, my now late uncle’s words come back to me regularly: “Fiction comes from fact, and lots of fact makes great fiction when you re-write it as fiction.” I love it. Come sometime in 2019, I hope you will love this, too.

“You wrote here she’s brown-haired, but I thought she was a blonde?”

May 21, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

The term “passive-aggressive” may well have been coined by someone observing a jealous author reviewing another’s work.

Our Royal Wedding Preview Panel

May 18, 2018.Reading time 21 minutes.

“If we may return to the subject of our discussion. Ms. Markle had been on a television drama on cable on the USA network…”

The Scariest “One”

May 16, 2018.Reading time 6 minutes.

Every page is important, but for a writer (in my humble opinion) “Page 1” is probably the scariest one.

Within “Ten Minutes”

May 14, 2018.Reading time 10 minutes.

…and my uncle jumps to my mind and I imagine him lecturing me how this needs to be turned into a screenplay and he knows a screenwriter and she’s fantastic and I think yep he always knows a woman and he asks me where did I get those women geez…

That Name

May 11, 2018.Reading time 8 minutes.

The Sun Also Rises is said to be probably his best novel. Interestingly, too, it is his first. (Not something most writers wish for themselves.)

To Blog, Or Not To Blog?

May 10, 2018.Reading time 4 minutes.

Instagram as well as other social media platforms are just not nearly as flexible or personal as a blog.

Getaway To Wales

May 9, 2018.Reading time 9 minutes.

No invading army ever took Pembroke Castle. Needless to say the café inside was never reached either, so no conqueror ever enjoyed one of its excellent cappuccinos.