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TV Light Makes My Black Tea Blood Red
There is a call to action. And then there is the complete paralysis of disbelief.
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Dusting an old novel out
I’ve done it. I’ve reached a block in the Memory Blanket where I feel I am hashing out something that I hadnt intended to, so I stopped. I’ve instead, taken down an old novel that I worked on last year, a magical realism one, but where I have had to create an entire new world.…
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Of Prologues
Lately I have been rethinking about prologues. As a reader I have never liked them. Usually I ignore them and get right down to the meat of things, flip to Chapter 1. Now my narration has reached a strange point. I don’t believe in black and white. There is no such thing as pure evil,…
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Getting back into gear…
So April is over and I’m recovering, albeit slowly from the rush of the A to Z challenge. During this month I was trying hard to learn description in a variety of ways. That’s always been my stumbling block. Descriptions. The chapters from my novel would come back from the writers critique group with marks…