When a story flows.

i first think of a person, place or event. Lets go with Charlie. What is Charlie doing or where is he.
Is charlie male of female? That is how I begin. and then it just flows from there.

Charlie sat in his car as he waited for the bridge to lock into place. He was so used to this same rutine now that he didn't think about it anymore. He looked and waved to the man in the car next to him on the right, smiling just like everyday. Slowly the cars in front of him began to inch forward, Charlie followed suit. His life had gotten so predictable and dull, he day dreamed of adventure and excitement as he keep his place in the slow moving parade of sad lonely drones. Each knowing their place and job like worker bees supporting the hive. A low distant buzzing from behind drew his complacent glazed eyes away from the dull normal faces around him. Turning his head to the sound Charlie's eyes widened as the roar got closer and the crome caught the sliver of sun as it cut it's way through the thick gray clouds over head. The glint of the mettle pirced his eye's forcing him to blink for just a second. Openning them again quickly not wanting to miss even a little bit of what was taking place, unlatching his seat belt Charlie leaned over the passenger seat of his plain dull gray car. Grasping the handle he twisted despreatly rolling down the stuck dusty window. The overpowering hunger he felt for something different was like that of a drug addicted man seaching for his next fix.

There that's the first part of a story. what will come next?

just some random thoughts.

ya know sometimes i just want to write but I don't know where to start. Sometimes I just start a story and leave it when I get lost. I've even deleated an entire story because I didn't know where it was going. I with sometimes I wouldn't do that because maybe some time down the road I will be able to finish the story. So now I have several that I've started and they just sit there waiting to be worked on. I'll get to them sometime, don't know when but someday. So ya. Oh, my daughter says she is now going to make me read Twilight as one of my assignments so ya that will be fun I have been trying to avoid reading it. But now I guess I can't do that anymore.

got my homework done.

Got my homework done today. Loved both John Steinbeck stories. 1. Of Mice and Men 2. Chrysanthemums both good stories, the fun part was analyzing them. I'm seeing them in different ways. Seeing the stories in different ways and the writing in a different way as well. I'd like to be able to analyze Shakespeare. maybe in time I will be able to incorporate all these different devices into my own writing, as long as it doesn't sound construed. I just want people to order it and read it. some are and so far everyone has said they liked it. that makes me happy and one girl said it made her cry. that really makes me happy.

always willing to learn.

My 16 year old took on the task yesterday of teaching me Rhetorical Strategies (literary devices). It was neat to see her get all excited at teaching me something I didn't understand and that she did. Its been 24 years since I was in high school and I don't even remember learning most of the stuff then. So it's kind of fun. And it will help with my writing to learn knew ways of saying things. She assigned me two things to study. Both are by John Steinbeck. And she is expecting me to study these stories and find all the things she marked. It's actully kind of cool. I am learning another way to see a story and to write. I like the learning and she is being patient and speaking so I understand her. I'm grateful for that. It's going to be fun and she is excited about it also and said she was going to tell her teacher about teaching me. One of the most important things about being a writer is being willing to learn all the time. I can't grow as a writer if I don't learn and grow. I want to be better. Although I did make a girl cry when she read my book. Cool huh.

thoughts today

It has been a almost three year process to get to this point. and it has been an amazing journey.
I have dreamed of being a published author my entire life. I started writing at 12 and never really gave up the dream. Although I didn't think it would ever really happen I just wasn't one of those people who got their dreams. But now I see that isn't so. I think of writing as a gift I have been intrusted with and it's up to me to develop it and share it with others. I love to write and see what will come out of my own head, sometimes I surprise myself. There are times when I am very impressed with what I write and then there are times when I know it is doo,doo. Those ones I just delete. I will say this, I Love to Write! I love the process of getting a book published but I don't love being patient, and I don't love rejection. But because it goes with writing I have to handle it too. Cause I love writing.

my first novel was published

Can be found at PublishAmerica.com in the online bookstore or just click on the link to the left at my publisher.