One question that all writers are often asked is how early did you begin writing. My answer is three years old when I wrote my first effective poem. Even before I wrote, I had begun drawing. I did the usual coloring in coloring books, but I also tried to draw my own shapes of animals and humans and buildings and colored them. Here’s how the first poem happened. My older sister June had begun attending school at five years old……
Writer’s block in which one is stuck on one chapter and can’t seem to move on or stuck in writing dialog has never been one of my problems because my imagination is powerful. I’ve rarely been stuck more than a few hours and maybe a day or two at the most. My problem is that I sometimes have too much going on in my mind. I am in such a problem now. In the past couple months, I have written…..
The idea for Nightmare Enemy, Dream Friend came out of the blue. I was at home writing on something else when the phone rang. “Hello.” “Are you a writer?” “Yes, I am.” I had had a local google ad as “writer, editor, tutor, teacher”; it was on the same page as ads for tuxedo rentals and sales, and I had gotten more calls looking for tuxedos than for writers. “I have a story that I think would be a great…..