It’s time to toss the dice ‘cause Winter is coming and I’m all out of bubblegum.  If it is one thing and author dreams about, it is coming up with a memorable catch phrase that isn’t corny.  But that last bit is the trick, see.  I could come up with ten million one-liners or “powerful [...]

I have this nagging sense that I’ve kibitz about this before, but a quick glance over my saved blogs (dear lord they are starting to pile up) say I haven’t, so here I go.  Authorial Fait: when the author makes something happen because they just wanted it to happen, not because it makes plot or [...]

Ya know, stress is one of those things that just annoys me.  Of course, I’d imagine that would make the personification of stress rather happy, but still.  It ranks right up there to me with regret on the annoyance scale though because, honestly, it doesn’t help a single thing, but it can come from so [...]

Sometimes, it is just easier to lie.  Sometimes, it is even the best option.  Sometimes a lie protects those you love, or is the only sane way out of a situation.  There are lots of reasons—good and bad—to lie, and I know a good number of them, having been on one side or the other [...]

I realized early on that I like to write from the points of view of older characters. And not like “oh, this elf is ten bajillion years old but only looks 20” older.  I meant people with the mindset of between thirty and sixty (if not older).  Now, considering I started writing when I was [...]