May 27, 2008

Time Goes By

This post is mostly about life, my kids and me. As I look in the mirror these days, I see gray hair where it once was dark brown. I use to have a lot of patience now, not so much. Funny thing is that I can still vividly remember my teen years. I know what you’re asking yourself, why the walk down memory lane?
My girls. Daughter number one will be Graduating this year. I can remember when she was born, her first steps and her favorite movie. Where does the time go? Now she has a boyfriend and thinking about the rest of her life.
Daughter number two starts High School in the fall. She has been on the Honor Roll or Merit Roll for three years. She has her first major crush, which will end up breaking her heart. But that is the way life goes.
My babies are growing up and I can still remember being their ages. Now my baby is right at six foot tall and I have to look up to her. Not by much but come on, how do you yell at someone when you have to look up to them?
Now starts a new chapter in motherhood. Ready or not!

May 14, 2008

Writers & Scripts

I read about a dozen of blogs a day and every one of them is writers with the exception of a couple. What I’ve noticed about writers no matter what they write or if they’re a best selling author or not, we all have one thing in common. At one time or another during each novel, they write they have doubts about themselves.

I kind of makes me feel good that some of my favorite writers doubt their writing. I don’t think they doubt their ability as writers but we all know that writing novels aren’t just all technical. We have to worry about flow, if it sounds believable to the reader and if a character has blue eyes that somewhere later in the book, they don’t turn to brown eyes.

I’m sure a published writer’s confidence is a lot higher with each book but it seems to be always there. Any thoughts on the subject?

After Heaven’s Door is finished and being shopped around the next project, I want to tackle is a television script. That type of writing is totally different from novels.