Listening

I was thinking today about how people listen to each other and trying to characterize those ways in a scene I’m writing. I have a pair of characters who talk past one other — each hears the other in terms of their own filters — and so neither of them hears the other. It made me realize how difficult this… (more…)

New Site, New Thoughts

Okay, so I started out my writing career thinking of it as a career, and pursued it that way. Then, after selling a handful of books to Harlequin/Silhouette (the old Silhouette Bombshell line), I felt like writing had become a chore. It was a job. It wasn’t a job I necessarily wanted to do full-time. So much for the career part… (more…)