I'm Taking a Fantastic Voyage. Won't You Join Me?
My beautiful map of Port Royal and Kingston Jamaica, for my soon to be new writing room, "Peggy's Cove." This map is dated 1772. Of course it isn't the original but it's beautiful. Check out a little history on the tragic Earthquake that destroyed a great deal of Port Royal in 1692. I chose …
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Mason Bentley as Hannah describes him: His stunning green eyes, which stood out like emeralds in the sand against his golden skin. Mason in his own words: 1. What is your name? The Name’s Mason Bentley. 2. What is your hair color and style, eye color, and skin tone? My long hair is a light …
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Ever since I wrote The Blue Diamond - The Razor's Edge, I've been sailing all across the internet in search of the treasure that is all things pirate. From web sites to Facebook pages dedicated to the history and lore of pirates, I've pillaged and plundered information and along the way, I've found the most …
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Kurt Vonnegut: The 8 basics of Creative Writing Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. Every character should want something, even if it is only a …
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What a way to start my morning... My all time favorite band honoring one of my close second all time favorite bands. Thank you to my old and dear friend Barb Fortman for sharing this with me this morning so I could share it with you. Crank it up!
Life gets to us all sometimes and I am certainly no exception to the rule. Instead of working myself to death and worrying about things I can't control, I'm trying a not so new technique for a few days but it's something I'm very unaccustomed to...letting go. Have you ever tried to screw the lid …
Tonight I ventured into a strange and unforgiving world...the YouTube VIDEO. Nope, I wasn't brave enough to get in front of the camera so I put together a video narration of an article I wrote not too long ago, complete with pictures and flubbed words. Hey gang, I did the best I could under circumstances …
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I know I started a new page today but as always, there are a lot of irons in the fire and I'm doing my best to keep up. I advertised a contest the other night but I'm going to share it again because I seem to have this knack for posting blogs at all of …
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I've been a bit MIA lately on my blog. I go through phases where I internalize things and it takes a breakthrough of some kind to pop the cork and allow the pressure to escape in a fountain of liquid bubbles of thoughts and words. I went to dinner last night with two of my …
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One of the things about being a writer is believe it or not, if we publish a book and send it out into the world for the first time, we definitely hope someone reads it. Writers spend hundreds of hours at their craft and then even more editing, rewriting and tweaking a story because of …
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