I talked with someone a few days ago about limitations and moving forward. This person had endured a lot of loss, hardship, and disappointment. Doors of opportunity seemed closed. She wasn’t sure if she was motivated to move beyond the barriers of her past, but by her own admission, she was ready for something to change. She needed to move past the …
Work In Progress
I’ve been thinking a lot about my work in progress. It’s kind of like the dairy farm above–I have to regularly tend to it and work at it to keep it operational. In the series that I’m creating, I have to keep track of the same characters because they may flow in and out of book one and two and …
Writing Up a Storm
Over the weekend I reviewed my work-in-progress, and I revamped a character that seemed to have become a bit of a bore. He’s still a bore—just a more colorful, multi-faceted bore. He doesn’t realize it. It’s part of who he is. As the story progresses, this fellow does grow and develop beyond what I’ve let the reader initially see. And though …