What I like about writing. That’s not a hard question to answer, writing is freeing. Writing takes you to anther place in your mind, Writing allows you to express the deepest sometimes darkest paces of your soul. Writing for me is creativity. It lets me make up stuff and then pass it off as real. Not really a lie but not the complete truth either. Fiction. Non fact. I like creating new people to conquer new problems or old problems. I like the freedom it gives me to not be me. But rather a piece of me doled out into a new being who in turn will do something extraordinary. Something I would be to shy to do.

Writing for me is the telling of a story that lives for the moment only in my mind. But once I write it down it becomes alive and sharable. You can read it and it may speak to you, or scare you or just plain entertain you. I like stories that make you think and wonder. In my horror I seek to scare you. Ever ride a roller coaster? Nope me either…lol, my horror can be a roller coaster for those of us who fear them. A roller coaster that I never have to leave my chair to experience, I never have to get out of my bed, yet I can still feel the ups and downs and still be scared out of my shoes (In The Footsteps of a Killer).

Writing is also very personal for me. Years ago my Mom told me about a story that she had come up with or dreamed, not sure now, But she had always said she waned to write it down and make it into a book, Year after year I would ask her, “Mom are you going to start your book?” And she would say “Yes”. One day I bought her a laptop after I had bought mine and started writing. I was trying to inspire her to start her story, it was really good and she called it The Mountain. While I plugged away on my first novel to be traditionally published (In The Footsteps of a Killer). she played Facebook games. Then I finished mine and she read it and loved it. I asked her about her’s. She smiled at me and said “You’re the writer in the family.” Sadly for my family she went home to the Lord and she never wrote about her “Mountain”. One day I will remember all of her story and I will write it for her. And for her and because of her…

Mom you are the best

I will never stop writing.

Finding time to write is not always easy. Children, spouse, jobs, outside commitment all tend to take away from your manuscript. And well let’s face it, it’s a thing called life.

When you think about finding time, you may think, “Okay, I’m gonna knock out this 10000 word novel then go cook dinner. I don’t think that’s quite how it goes. Some people can get up in the morning, the very crack of dawn, before the world begins to turn. Some people find time at the end of the day. The world is quiet and everyone is asleep. Still others can find their moment in the middle of the day, the spouse is at work, the kids are at school and you the writer are in your writing lair with you adult beverage. All of these are great and if they work so much the better. I find that taking 10, 20 minutes a day to jot down what I’m feeling or thinking at the time help me to create a flow. Words put together form a sentence then a paragraph then a story.
An idea, a great character name, their POV, helps me to flesh out a story. It’s almost like a guideline.

In those minutes I can jot down a character description, a great encounter or even just a character name am I am on my way toward a great a story. In those quick 10 to 20 to 30 minutes you can build up enough so that when you do find your quiet moment you are not without material. And as you use that material the time becomes easier to find because now you have something to work from and you don’ have to sit and wait for inspiration to come to you giving your writing time more production.

Some people have no problem finding their writing time others not so easy. Whatever you find that works for you, telling your spouse in bed, “No not until I resolve this chapter” don’t have a spouse myself and not sure if this would work but hey…until you find your writing time try anything because the more you write the more you can accomplish.

Happy Horror