The world looks so brand new to me now that I found love. – Musiq Soulchild At some point or another we’ve all experienced seeing things through new eyes. Maybe it was an aha moment. Or a new pair of glasses that revealed something minute that previously went unnoticed. Or you saw a child playing [...]

I read an article once that suggested using a questionnaire to design characters. I thought this was a fabulous idea to expand on who you’d like your character to be. Initially, when I have an idea for a character its based on someone I might have observed in my life and then I tend to [...]

My mom recently asked me had I made any progress on my current manuscript. She’s a writer too, so she fully understands the creative process. But her question really got me to pondering why I haven’t been writing. Honestly, I haven’t touched my manuscript in a while. Part of the reason is that my focus [...]

In a recent interview with writer/blogger Synithia Williams she asked what inspired me? Before I could answer, I thought about why I write to begin with? For me, fiction is a way of seeing through others eyes. Releasing the judgment that we as humans sometimes have in everyday life and finding a way to look at things [...]