A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give me feedback! Richard Jordan resolved never to let himself be called Dick again.  Not by anyone for the rest of his life, even if that life happened to end today.  He figured the chances of a fatality at about a seventy [...]

The muse can be a real pain in the butt. When I am writing in the wrong direction I get slapped around pretty well. I can’t write with flow, nothing is clear, and the story, well… if you spent some time in this section of the blog, you have to pretty much know it wasn’t going well.

A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give me feedback!

It wasn’t right to say Richard had been in love before, he was still in love but now he had been cleaved from her. Richard despaired that he knew what absolute love was for he had lived it and lost it. In moments of pristine clarity he both rejoiced in and mourned that he had been so abjectly and completely in love. He was not foolish; this was not puppy or teen love, but true devoted connection on a completely cellular level. Being lost to it was more agonizing in that he had been doomed by it.

A Novel Approach – Intervention the Novel, FIRST DRAFT, please feel free to give feedback.

Jane Jordan finished locking down the convertible top of the candy apple red, 1957, classic Corvette and fit her lithe, aerobically perfect, body into the pristine leather seats of the car’s cockpit as she struggled to avoid thinking about her husband Dick. She cranked Van Halen rock and roll at old school volumes and scanned the road for cops and then for drivers she might be able to push into their own road rage.

When I started writing Jane, I had some extra motivation and a few role models.  I didn’t want to get on the other side of a lawsuit so I made some creative adjustments to her attributes, behaviors and tried like hell to make her SO bad, that no one could accuse me of basing her [...]