Hi, back again to say Hi, and good morning.
Today I wanted to touch on my writing skill, or lack thereof. About a year ago, I had a stroke. It was on Christmas Day. Not the present I wanted under the Christmas tree, but we don’t always get what we want.
I refuse to think of it as suffering a stroke. It was a block in my progress in life. Yes, I lost momentum, and it put me down, but not out! I lost much of the use of my left side, but with regular exercise, I got much of it back. I walk with a cane, but I can walk! The one thing I miss the most is my typing and handwriting skills. I used to have very nice handwriting, and if I slow down, it isn’t so bad.
My typing speed had slowed from 80+ wpm on the manual typewriter I had after my typing class. After the stroke, I was zero; with much work, I can type a little, but not well, and I would not want to take a typing test.
I love to write, and have created 24 books and two series that I have self-published. My “Ruby and Nolan’s Great Adventures in Space” was and is a blast to write. They are about real people and were originally written as Christmas Gifts, but evolved into books, just for the love of reading.
The second series, at my daughter’s request, was to create stories about her imaginary playmates. She had three! After much thought, the “Sleep Travelers” series was born! There are now four books in the series, and places where they might want to go are dreamed up, and they will go on more dream adventures.
I love my characters, and I clearly picture them in my mind, that they become almost real to me. I sometimes cry when I have to let them go.
I do pay attention to the writing gurus’ techniques, but I am just someone who cannot help putting characters into precarious positions and struggling to find their way out!
I admit that I am a Pantser writer! That is, I start with a written premise of my total story idea, then I go off the rails as each problem presents itself to them and help them figure a way out, hopefully in one piece. Now that you know what I do, I invite other secret or well-known writers to tell me what they do.
I just finished Book 9 of the Ruby and Nolan series, called “Volcano,” and it should hit the distribution points next month. I loved putting some good friends in the precarious position of possibly dying in a fiery furnace of an erupting volcano while trying to rescue a group of Faraies!
My next project is to copyright a series of books. I have been approached by a company that wants to promote me. I would love to do that as long as I am not obligated to finance it for them. I did the hard part by creating them.
Well, that’s all for today, hope your day is as fun as mine will be….
See you next time. All my books are available at the following:
Apple Books, Barnes & Noble, Kobo, Everand, Smashwords, Tolino OverDrive, bibliotheca, Baker & Taylor, BorrowBox, Hoopla, Vivlio, Palace Marketplace, Odilo, Gardners, Amazon