On the days that my vision is not blurred from the current physical trauma I am experiencing, I write. Well, on most of those days. That is NOT what this is about. It's about my characters speaking to me, kinda telling me their story. Once that started happening for me, I was all gangbusters, writing frantically, fantastically, formidably, all the F words. Then  I stopped hearing them. Let me start at the beginning.

First, I knew I had to find the write name for my female…

In all my years of looking for a recipe for writing, the most prolific advice I received was 'just write'. Initially, I thought this was hogwash. I do write. But as of yet, no magical book has resulted in my dogged attack on writing. Oh, my friends have said -"E- you write brilliantly. You have to keep writing. Where is your book?" I rationalized - they are my friends. How can they say - "E-your writing sucks. Get a daytime job and keep it."; they cannot.

Yet, true to my…

I have experienced a lot of transition over the last 5 years. I went through 3 years of separation from my husband, then my marriage ended, severing a 20+ year relationship. My brother-in-law was murdered in his office at a major university. My ex-husband was remarried two weeks after our divorce was final. The roof of my home started caving in, and needed major repairs. I moved for the first time in 11 years, and had a major surgery from which a side effect has been disabling migraines,…

When I…