Character Interview with Jolene Wiley, Voices of the Dead What I imagine Jo and I would have if we sat down for a chat at her place. I signed up for the Writer Nation spring challenge, which has been both fun and productive so far. Today’s task is a character...
After I signed my contract with Griffyn Ink, Eli Jackson, indie publisher badass, sent me an envelope with two really nice pens. The enclosed note said they were for signing copies when my book came out. I put them in my desk box, the closest thing I have to a...
I listen to music when I write. It helps set my mood and puts me in the place I need to be with the characters. Who by Water was influenced by a copious amount of Leonard Cohen, both back catalogue and his last release You Want It Darker. At some point, I imagined...
I'll confess that most of my knowledge of plotting is from field research, mostly reading and watching mysteries since Nancy Drew. I think I'm better at creating characters. Or characters are better at finding me than story arcs, depending on how, or if, you think the...
Last May I started writing a novel. That was a surprise. My dream of being a writer was to be a poet. Then it was to be a fairly obscure blogger with a small but dedicated following. Then it was to be a memoirist. Then this novel slammed into me out of nowhere when I...