Spoiler Alert: If you haven’t finished reading my books, this either won’t make sense to you, will spoil the ending for you, or both. You’ve been warned. When the last of the community had finally left, Audrey locked up the church and made the short trip home. Though the two buildings stood within shouting distance,…
Note: I’ve got some new posts coming soon with a list of other ideas to write about as time goes by. While I figure out how often I want to send out new writing, here’s a recap of something I wrote about a year ago. Some of you may have already seen these, but I’m…
I’m not entirely sure how interesting anyone finds this or the previous two posts about character development, but it’s one of those things I could go on and on about if pressed on the topic. In the first I touched on the oveall development of my characters and then delved a little into some of…
Perhaps one of the bigger challenges for a writer is developing characters of the opposite sex and making them convincing. In the first book, this wasn’t too difficult because many of the secondary characters, both male and female, are kinda one-dimensional. They serve more in a supportive role. One exception would be Ruby Fisher, who…
One of the challenges of any story is to create characters that make the reader feel something. For the good guys, you want the reader to be invested enough to cheer them on when they win or perhaps shed a tear when they die. For the bad guys, you want someone who is despicable enough…
As we count down the days until the release of In Times Of Trouble: Aftermath, I thought perhaps one or two of you might be interested in what I picture when I write the setting of the story. When I began writing this story and the characters within, I did so with a pretty clear…