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The Right Career for Your Character, Round Robin, 11-16-24

The Right Career for Your Characters For me, I don’t pick careers for the characters so much as they evolve out of who the character is. If they have magic, what type of magic? How would that magic affect them? Would it automatically influence the type of career...

Plotter vs Pantser: which are you? Or are you both depending on the book? — Round Robin — 6-17-23

Plotter vs Pantser: which are you? Or are you both depending on the book?This month’s topic for Round Robin is the process of writing your books. Well, the process of writing my books because this is my blog. (However, I would love to hear from you about your...

Breathing Life into Your Characters, Round Robin, 4-22-23

Breathing Life into Your CharactersA Round Robin Blog, 4-22-23 Lila poked at the sword. Nearly the length of her legs, it was impressive, but why would Jen think this was a good birthday gift? She raised an eyebrow at her best friend. Jen grinned, her brown eyes...

Finding your writing mojo-January 21, 2023, Round Robin

Finding your writing mojoIt's a new year with possibilities to start anew--although I've never really subscribed to this thought process. Every day is a new beginning with the potential to start over, change directions, etc. Even with that mentality, I have been...

What messages do your books give your readers?—Round Robin, 3-19-22

What messages do your books give your readers? When I write books, I don’t start out thinking they’ll have a message. Honestly, it’s the character’s story. Any message that ends up in the book comes directly from the character/characters. And I’m usually just as...

1 hour swim workout, SCAQ Sunday, 2-20-22

Bill likes to push a some. This was a push. After the warmup, a swimmer in the lane next to me said, "If only we could do this entire workout as 25s." I laughed and said, "Yeah, but you know Bill would make that hurt." He laughed and agreed. It's not a bad thing at...

2-19-22 – Flawed characters-Round Robin

Flawed CharactersDescribe a flawed character you might use in a story. How did they become so flawed? What part will they play in the story and what will happen to them? All of my characters are flawed. A perfect character would be boring. There would be no character...

1 hour plus swim workout, Saturday swim with friends, 2-12-22

We had a packed three lanes today with five people in each lane. It was a balmy 75º. This is our annual week or two of summer in winter. While I enjoy it, hopefully, we'll be back to cool temps and rain soon. 1 hour plus swim workout, Saturday swim with friendsMichael...

1 hour swim workout, SCAQ Thursday, 2-10-22

I came expecting Coach Rada and a stroke (IM) workout. Obviously, she wasn't, but Coach Steve was. The fun thing about having different coaches is the variety of workouts we get. Each coach has a different style. Although Thursdays are usually stroke day, this was...

1 hour 10 minute swim workout, Wednesday swim with friends, 2-9-22

1 hour 10 minute swim workout, Wednesday swim with friends550 warmup (?min) Warmup set 2x (1000 yds, 15 min) 5 x 100 on 1:30 :30 rest between sets Main set (1900 yds, 31:40 min) Set 1 — 3x (900 yds, 14 min) 150 on 2:20 100 on 1:30/1:25/1:20 by round 50 on :50/:55/1:00...