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.…

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,…

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…

Z is for Zest As the month winds down to a simmer, and I look forward to the May flowers that the April showers will bring, I think of the one feeling that underlay the entire month. The thirty days of thinking about a new feeling every day. A roller coaster from chagrin to sanguine.…