Hey all ~ Here’s a pix of Rachel and I strolling Cocoa Beach — sadly, of course, we were…brainstorming a book! We’re such addicts! Which is why I nearly stepped on a jellyfish. (They’re these cool little see-through disks, like a blob, on the sand…I said, “Hey Rach, look — ” and stuck my bare toe out to nudge it and she nearly threw me over her shoulder and took off in a run!) We hashed out her new book, and then worked on one of my scenes. We always start out with one easy word…WHY. It’s a great way to get to the heart of the story. Hope you all are having a great week! R & S
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Just when you think they’re not learning anything from Television…
Hey all! It’s going to be a sparse week at MBT – Rachel and I are in Florida, ducking the rainstorms, talking about writing, brainstorming stories…we’ll be posting some pics as the week goes on! In the meantime, my daughter was home this past week from working at camp, and she feasted on Lois and Clark, the second season. I’d come downstairs from my office and discover her at three in the afternoon, in her bathroom and Superman pants, digging through the fridge. She’d swoon and say, Oh, Clark is sooooo cute. I thought — hey, this isn’t a super productive way to spend your summer… until she sent me this devotional she wrote before she left again for camp. She’s 16, but I like the way she thinks. Here […]
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(Note: I thought I posted this on Tuesday, but it didn’t show up for some reason…so you’re getting it today. *g*) I spent the weekend driving again – to camp to drop off my sons this time. I saw my daughter looking cute and directing traffic (she’s working at camp for the summer), and stole a few moments with her and her girlfriend (delivering home-made cookies, of course!). The first thing out of her friends’ mouth was…. “I met a boy.” And then I saw it…that sparkle in her eyes, the glow in her expression, the way she hunched her shoulders and giggled. Oh…she met a BOY. I love to fall in love. (and when you’re married, you get to do it over and over again *g*). And I love […]
Read the RestNo, no, it can’t end this way!
Every romance has to have that moment when we as the reader jump up from our chairs and are tempted to throw the book against the wall, furious that these two can’t be together. In other words – it has to have a BLACK MOMENT. Your black moment is where everything goes south. It’s when the hero loses the heroine, maybe he finds out some truth about her and turns his back, or maybe she finds out something about him and runs away. Maybe the external obstacles become so large that they can’t be overcome and both turn away. But you need to force these two apart, and you need to make miserable. Really despairing, so that they are in a worse place emotionally than they were before […]
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