By Sharla Rae When I was supposed be writing my blog for today I was catching up on new favorite TV series, Game of Thrones. I thoroughly enjoyed the chopping off of heads, sex, creepy zombies of the North, sex, war, slaughtering of animal, and did I mention steamy sex? There’s just one problem. Afterward, […]

By Sharla Rae We’ve all experienced brain freeze and no, I don’t mean writers’ block. Writers’ block is when you don’t know what comes next in the story or you’ve written yourself into a corner and can’t find a way out. Think of brain freeze as a frozen lake. All the fish are still alive […]

By Sharla Rae Too much flab on a person can cause a fatal heart attack. It's fatal to an author’s writing too. Flabby writing is usually the result of wordiness or over writing. Both are weak and tiresome and make editors go cross-eyed. Worse, at the first sign of it, an editor stamps it as a reject. […]

Composing a story is a lot like cooking. It blends emotion, story and character into a delicious tale that fills the belly of imagination and satisfies a reader’s tastes. The right combinations make gourmet delights.

By Charlotte Carter. Since our daughter Carolyn was very young, we always had kitties at our house. Now our daughter has her first puppy! She claims she and her husband got the dog for her boys, ages 15, 10 and 5. Now, I ask you. Does that look like the puppy is for her boys? […]