Bloghopping From North America To Asia
This post is part of a bloghop. Peggy Payne recruited me, and you can check out the answers to her questions here. I feel so privileged to have met so many wonderful authors from all around the world. Below, you’ll find the links to the authors who will be answering … Continue reading
Bullies and Creativity
This post was inspired by a recent Ground Zero Podcast from January 31st. It focused on transhumanism, a topic that frightens me as we’re mentally and spiritually not ready for this type of advancement. If you’re interested to listen to this podcast, click here. During the course of the podcast, … Continue reading
Falling In Love With Omniscient Narration
As I’m now going through my official edit of Sunrise, I’m falling in love with omniscient narration. While I was writing the first draft, I had some ambivalence because of my decision to go with a named narrator. I reflected on a previous post I’d written about the subject. My … Continue reading
Synchronicity in Writing and the Great Hen Escapade
I was working on a scene about how our silence keeps us prisoner, and as this is my final edit before publication, I scrutinized a passage and concluded my protagonist, Damon, came off a bit preachy. By grounding his dialogue to his own experiences, the scene packed a more powerful … Continue reading
Choreographing A Scene
I had a very creative week. As with many of my story breakthroughs, it happened at the gym, while running on the treadmill. I knew when I posed my story question, by the time my workout was over, I’d have my answer, but not necessarily to the question I asked. … Continue reading
When Editing Is Done Well, Everything Falls Into Place Naturally
As of August 24th, I finished my final pass of Jessie’s Song, and it’s now ready for a professional edit. I even wrote a song to accompany the book which one of my daughters will sing. Jessie’s Song went through several incarnations, beginning life as a high-concept screenplay I wrote for a … Continue reading
Characters Write Themselves When They’re Free
I started working on my fourth novel, On The Farm. The antagonist’s personality came to me three days ago. I wanted to know why he would work against his own growth, and once I figured it out, I was ready to begin writing the story…twenty days ahead of schedule! When … Continue reading
On Being An Author Of Visionary Fiction
I’ve recently met other visionary authors, and we’ve come together to create the Visionary Fiction Alliance as a means to promote the genre. What I value most about this group is that even though we all have diverse opinions, we get along great. The reason for this is because there … Continue reading
Sculpting A Story
I started my novel, Unison, in February of 2011, and officially wrote the end in June of 2012. During this whole time period, I woke up with this story on my mind, and it was the last thing I thought about when I went to bed. For a person … Continue reading
When Writing Rewrites The Author
I’ve written about how spirituality drives my fiction, but something unusual happened to me last week. While doing research on my new visionary fiction story, On The Farm, I was so affected by what I read that I gave up eating eggs. The point of my blog isn’t about the … Continue reading
Transcendent Experiences That Inspire The Sci-Fi Author
This blog was inspired by Dr. Jeff Kripal’s podcast interview on Skeptico discussing his book “Mutants and Mystics” which I’ve ordered and am looking forward to reading. The book is about how authors use their own paranormal experiences to write their stories. I was immediately intrigued as that’s what I … Continue reading
Unison – First Chapter
I’m currently in the process of having the interior of the Unison professionally designed. In anticipation of the Kindle release, which will hopefully be later this month, I’ve put up the first chapter of Unison. Love and light, Eleni
Lessons Learned By A Writer With A Short Attention Span
As of June 21, 2012 I completed my first draft of Sunrise, nine days short of my goal. As I reach another milestone in my writing career, I’d like to dedicate this post to everyone who suffers from PTSD and ADHD. The latter I see as a positive because the … Continue reading
