S-L-O-W (writer at play)

I was thinking this morning about writing a post acknowledging the fact that things have seemed to move very slowly for me during the past year+ since I’ve had my wonderful agent, Wendy, shopping two of my novels around to publishers. No slower than they were...

Taking every thought captive

My writing journey has been a long one. Most who know me know that. There have been times I’ve felt very close to being published, times I felt light years from any such thing. Times when writing was a joy, times when it was utter frustration. Times when I...

Flintlocks: How They Work

If you stop me on the street and ask me what a frizzen is, I can tell you.For the past two days I’ve been working on a scene in which a character of the 18th century who has never fired a gun before needs to learn to fire a flintlock pistol (not a rifle; those...

Why I write Colonial American Fiction

Well, technically I don’t write Colonial American fiction, but I do write fiction set in the late 18th century, which is pretty close. And if these nudgings and whisperings from characters in the wings mean what I think they mean, after my current work in...

When they die in the end

I thought about posting this question on Facebook, but realized it’s a little more involved than that format allows. Here’s the thing; today I’m finishing up a novel (reading) in which the main character dies in the end. I didn’t know this was...

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