Tulo Tuesday: Set Free!
We are getting parts of our complex painting and while I was talking to the contractor, Tulo decided to leave our place and see what was going on. I’m going to have to close our door more firmly!...
Researching the Next Next
As I’m leading a life of writing, I also have to prepare for the next as well as the next next. In fact, I started doing some heavy duty research for the book I’m writing now about two years ago, while I was writing the final Mas Arai mystery,...
Tulo Tuesday: Peeing in the Rain
Tulo: “First you put this ridiculous raincoat on me and now you are taking a picture of me peeing? No shame.”...
Action vs. Thinking
As National Novel Writing Month has ended, I’ve started to think about the balancing act that writers face in terms of action versus thinking. In some ways, I’m definitely a woman of action. I’m intuitive and listen to my gut. If my heart tells me to jump, I usually...
Tulo Tuesday: Snow-capped San Gabriels
Can you spot the snow on the San Gabriel Mountains? Tulo and I were admiring the view during a recent dog walk. #winter #snowinSouthernCalifornia ...
First Person Female
I’ve mentioned this before, but it’s taken me a while to grab hold of my female voice. Maybe a psychoanalyst can figure out why, but then again the reasons may not be germane. After my third Mas Arai mystery (that series is all written in the third person), I...
Tulo Tuesday: Sleeping In
The winter months are for sleeping in....
Flowing Freely
Every November I find a group of people who are doing NaNoWriMo and swim behind them in the water’s wake. NaNoWriMo is the annual write a novel–well, 50,000 words in one month–campaign. I first attempted to sign up but didn’t like being tied to a certain word count goal,...
Tulo Tuesday: Natural Holiday Cheer
For some reason, I’ve been in the holiday spirit this month, so I was delighted to encounter these red berries, which I learned was pyracantha. Thanks, Derek Yee, for the heads-up!...
WRITING WEDNESDAY: Plotting Using Evernote
My friend, exhibition developer Heather Lindquist, turned me onto the application, Evernote, when we were working together on the book, LIFE AFTER MANZANAR, which was published last year. Evernote, which can be a free download, is a quick way to create notebooks of pages. These pages can have notes...