Romantic Friday Writers: Blue Moon
http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. The theme this week is Blue Moon. I felt very inspired this week. As soon as I saw the theme, this scene just floated into my mind. I don’t know much about these characters or their story, but I’m excited to find out more! Word count: 390, Full Critique fine ### She plugged her ipod into the speakers and waited until Nancy Griffith’s scratchy voice drifted into the dusty room. No need to tell me you’d like to be friends, and help me get back on my feet again. And if I miss you, it’s just now and then. Just once, in a very blue moon… She turned slowly, leaning back against the wooden bar. “This...
Read MoreInterview: Jennifer Wilck
Today’s interview is with Jennifer Wilck, the author of A Heart Of Little Faith, which is a romance novel with a paraplegic hero. Here is the description from Amazon: “Lily Livingston is a widow raising her six-year-old daughter, Claire, in New York City. Devastated by her husband’s death three years ago, she’s in no hurry to fall in love again. Besides, trying to balance her career with motherhood leaves her little time for romance. With a wheelchair instead of a white horse, and a vow against falling in love again as his armor, Gideon Stone is the last person Lily expects to sweep her off her feet. But when a business agreement forces the two of them together, that is exactly what happens. As they navigate the minefield that fast represents their...
Read MoreAutism and Me
On my YouTube channel, someone suggested that I talk a bit about the difference between visible and invisible disabilities. I have never called myself disabled. I have an interest in people who have physical disabilities and I always have, but there is another kind of disability that is unrelated to that interest of mine. Up until last year all I knew was that I was a bit odd. Then as I hit a wall of depression and struggled back from it, I started talking to and being asked questions by people who knew about things that I didn’t: like Asperger’s. I’d heard the word, but didn’t think much of it. We as a society have a lot of ideas about what it means to be autistic and it usually involves something like a lack of mental capacities. I...
Read MoreRomantic Friday Writers: Bouquet
http://fridaynightwriters.blogspot.com/ This blog has a challenge for writers of romance/love stories to write 400 words on a theme each Friday. The theme this week is Bouquet. This is a scene from my WIP, Breath(e). Elizabeth has always been attracted to disabled men exclusively, but she decides that she ought to at least try dating an able-bodied guy. Word Count: 302, critique however you would like. Comments will be of great help! ### Elizabeth almost didn’t see Patrick as she came out of her Biology class. She was thinking about which assignments had to get done tonight and which could be put off, missing the unusually warm November weather and Patrick standing at the bottom of the wheelchair ramp with flowers in his hands. “Oh,” Elizabeth jumped as...
Read MoreWhere Does Devoteeism Come From?
Short answer: no one knows. And yet, people have put out theories based on their assumptions about what we are like. There is almost no research in this area. There has been ONE case study, and people continue to refer to it as the explanation for devness. People love explanations. When something happens that is against what they see as the norm, they have to have a reason. If there was abuse in your past, they will nod wisely and say that’s why you’re a devotee. Even if the dev feeling started long before any abuse. It goes back to people fearing what they don’t understand. Attempts to understand it have been made by people who are not devs and they are looked to as experts. As though we cannot speak for ourselves. As though we have...
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At proofreaders; available for pre-order
What Is Meant To Be
Second draft
Homework & Homicide (working title)
Second Draft
Book Montage
RFW winner October 7, 2011
