Growing up I was an absolute menace with a camera. Every museum, every landscape, every EVERYTHING was captured on film. I still have an old photo album from when I was a kid and a third of those images are of random city streets. Another third are of clouds and animals. The rest are friends and family members in mid-motion. Once… Read more »
Being disabled, television has become my lifeline to the outside world. Be it the news, a 30-minute sitcom, or an hour-long drama, they occupy a majority of my free time – which is more than I care to admit. So, to think of television is a seamless thought that runs as smoothly through my mind as if discussing or thinking… Read more »
Love it or hate it, it’s impossible to deny that The Walking Dead has left a mark on the popular psyche and isn’t going away anytime soon, especially since it’s been renewed for at least twelve seasons. At first, that news made me roll my eyes. After how bad season two was, I wondered how they could keep up momentum… Read more »
This week’s inspiration series deals with television. I was about to jump out there and say TV shows spur very little in the way of ideas for my books. However, no sooner did I start to type that, when I realized the topic is “Television”, not just TV shows. While TV shows don’t bring to mind many ideas for my… Read more »
Music has always been a huge part of my life since I was very young. My mom tells stories about how to get me to go to sleep at night, she often had to put me in the car and drive around listening to music. In our house, music was always playing. And despite the fact that I couldn’t sing… Read more »
I don’t remember a single day of my life that wasn’t surrounded by human speech. If I wasn’t talking to family, I was talking to friends. If I wasn’t talking to friends, I was listening to teachers. If I wasn’t listening to teachers, I was listening to music or nearby chatter. If I wasn’t listening to music or chatter, well,… Read more »
Does music inspire me to write? I guess you could say it inspires me to do just about everything. Okay, almost everything. By that, I mean that music puts me in a certain mood and place, and that, often guides whatever I’m doing. If I’m trying to decide what color to paint a wall and a lively song comes on?… Read more »
Since before I left home and went away to college, I can always remember having quite an avid interest in anything pertaining to the way the mind works. I tended to always enjoy the “whydunit” (to coin my own new phrase) rather than the whodunit type of movie. It always came quite easy for me to quickly solve the mystery… Read more »
A quick diversion if I may. What I think you will love about this series is that Tay, Ash and I are very different. We think differently. We were raised differently. We write in different genres. We live in different areas of the country. We have different likes and dislikes. We are not ALL female. (Hee hee.) I know… Read more »
I lived off a steady diet of cartoons growing up. Disney, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, Dream Works, Don Bluth, Studio Ghibli, and probably more I don’t remember. If it was animated, odds are I watched it or at least knew about it. I liked plenty of live-action stuff too—I watched Jumanji a million times, despite the nightmares, and Disney Channel… Read more »
When you first become a writer the first piece of advice you hear is, “Read!” After you’ve been at it for a few years, maybe have a few pieces published, maybe not, the most common piece of advice is still “Read!” Read inside your genre. Read outside your genre. Read style guides and how-to books. Read the classics. Read pop-literature…. Read more »