Um, what?
This is my attempt at a blog because sometimes I think I want to say things.
Sometimes those things might even make sense.Archives
Monthly Archives: March 2017
“The stench of loneliness” and “sweet sorrow”
I try to put sensory descriptions in my writing, and one I like to use a lot is the sense of smell. This morning I was researching autopsy rooms (what do you do with your Fridays?). I came across an … Continue reading
Buried under covers…or not…
…as an indie author who actually worked in design (this was the bygone days of plate printing where each color in a design had to be transferred via massive UV light to a sheet of metal, then slapped onto a printing press and inked… we rode dinosaurs back then, too, BTW), I thought I could “fake-it-till-ya-make-it”. I kind of did for a little while, but now it’s time to get off my 12-cylinder brontosaurus and pay somebody to do something that would take me a few months/years of dedicated learning to do (wrong). Continue reading
So what do writers write about when they aren’t writing about other people?
It’s hard to talk about myself without being a little self-deprecating, because my agony is someone else’s comedy, so I let my characters handle things for me. Continue reading
First blog post
This is the post excerpt. Continue reading