by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Jul 10, 2018 | On Writing
Watch the video at the bottom of this blog or visit https://youtu.be/Csrn0wd5Ky8. We often consider memories to be solid facts; framed within a moment of time, we remember actions and people as if we are watching a movie in which the scene has been filmed and...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Jul 6, 2018 | Checkmate Clans and Castles, On Writing, River Passage, Songbirds are Free
If you’d prefer to watch a video version of this blog, visit my YouTube Channel: https://youtu.be/uJBkk6BjE6U or watch at the bottom of this blog. Heroes in real life as well as in fiction encounter a variety of dragons they must slay. Some are internal, some...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Jul 2, 2018 | On Writing, Vicki's Key
If you’d prefer to watch the video blog, skip to the bottom or visit https://youtu.be/32-7WgA8cqI. Moving to a new location is a theme encountered from the classics to contemporary genre. In a physical move, the hero leaves behind all that he or she has...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Jun 1, 2018 | Authors and Books, On Writing, Uncategorized, Vicki's Key
The most common response to encountering something unexpected or potentially traumatic is to freeze. This has always been my default response to spiders. And once when I was gardening, I stood up to find myself face to face with the largest snake I’d ever seen. It had...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | May 21, 2018 | Authors and Books, On Writing
“In AD 1, it took 1,500 years for the amount of information in the world to double. It is now doubling at the rate of once every two years.” This quote came from How to Survive Change You Didn’t Ask For by M.J.Ryan (Conari Press, 2014). Read the entire article below,...
by 5u5p3nc3Auth0r | Oct 6, 2017 | On Writing, The Tempest Murders
The past two weeks have felt surreal with the arrival of Hurricane Matthew, the resulting storm surge and subsequent flooding in Lumberton, North Carolina. For those who have read The Tempest Murders, you’ll recall that it takes place as Hurricane Irene is...
