Writing
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The novella “Big Love” features a key scene in the Usonian style home, Samara, designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright in West Lafayette, IN. The author highlights the peaceful and relaxing atmosphere of the home, influencing the protagonist’s emotions, and explores the connection between architecture and mood.
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Well, as Berly Charles could tell you, tiny houses aren’t necessarily low in quality. Tiny can be large. Tiny can be luxury. Tiny can be va-va-va-voom! Berly is the female lead in my novella, “Big Love,” now out from Scrivenings Press. In the story, she builds tiny houses for residents in Indianapolis who need or
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Many new books are being published in May. Here are some of them!
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See a great video featuring a tiny house community for veterans in Kansas City. Something similar happens in my novella “Big Love,” which also focuses on a similar charity build and contemporary romance, in a humorous way.
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My novella “Big Love,” unexpectedly written during the drafting of another novel, revolves around the tiny house phenomenon and combating homelessness. The story involves a writer and a company president with contrasting experiences of homelessness, leading to the question: Can they find big love in a tiny house?
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I am drawn to tiny house living due to fascination, creativity, and a romantic appeal, even though the option is not currently suitable to my lifestyle. But what if you’re considering it?
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Sometimes I think my idea well has run dry. The plots I dredge up are so spare they couldn’t even flesh out a flash fiction story. Can you relate? Usually what this means is I need to switch from “creative” mode to “ingestion” mode—I need more raw material to draw from. Some writers can create
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Sometimes when I’m goofing with my two dogs, Baxter and Taffy, God will snap his fingers, hold his hand over my nose, and tell me to “Sit. Stay. Listen.” And when I do, I learn valuable lessons. Almost every morning I have the same breakfast—two slices of peanut butter toast. I love peanut butter. At
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“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn’t matter a damn how you write.” –Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British playwright, novelist (Of Human Bondage) and short story writer. “It is perfectly okay to write garbage—as long as you edit brilliantly.” –C.J. Cherryh, a United States science fiction and
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I know it’s only February, but in my office that’s when I start thinking about Spring Cleaning. Why so early? Because I hate the process, even though it is vital to the smooth operation of my freelance editing business. If I don’t start early to think and plan for it, procrastination will win the day.
Writing On The Fine Line 