https://youtu.be/QC5C7v5XNnQ You know, when I started this thing a few months ago, I opened all the usual social media accounts, to gain some links to others doing the same sort of thing.Twitter was just one channel, and I never expected…
Category: writing
Norman story
A few days ago, I mentioned a story idea based on D-Day, the Second World War landings in Normandy. A place I love, and a fascinating and momentous occasion in our history.I've been thinking of a way to tell a…
How to be the Queen of Sex
Vickie Vaughan and her erotic stories have appeared in this blog before. She not only knows how to write white-hot sex scenes that put the reader into the heat of the action, but she constructs a plot that pulls the…
Two Come Carrie Tonite!
Writing and publishing this story was a challenge. It's my second Camp NaNoWriMo story, but unlike the first one, which I actually got live on line during April, this has taken another month.It took a fair bit of research -…
Page turners
What makes a story good? I see this question asked by many people, of many people. An author is perhaps the worst person to ask for an answer. If they are any good, they aren't working to a formula. They…
Works in Progress May
Charles French, whose most excellent blog I follow, shares his WIP status and asks readers to do likewise. Well, this will be a pingback rather than a comment, but it all counts, hey?Just twiddling over the final chapter of Two…
My words!
For research, I have been reading rather a lot of erotica. For research purposes. I don't do it to enjoy myself.Here's my take on a good erotic short:1. Reasonably credible plot and characters. The characters have to have reasons to…
RTFM
Manual cars are a bit of a challenge nowadays. I've driven automatic for so long that when I occasionally rent one - because I can't afford anything better in a strange country - it's an adventure.So I made driving one…
Coming alive
There's a moment - and every writer knows it well - where the characters step off the kerb and start walking for themselves.No matter how tightly the story is plotted, how rigidly the character's actions and appearance and thoughts are…
Two Cum Carrie
Tucumcari Tonite, read the signs along Route 66. And for the travellers motoring along the old two-lane, that must have seemed like a good place to aim for: a tiny town with nothing much besides motels, diners, and gas stations.Once…
