Random Musings

Category: writing

  • Grateful 

    I’m sitting outside.  It’s October. I’m in a tank top and shorts.  I love Spain. I always say I miss the sun, but I forget what that really means until I’m surrounded by it again. The warmth seeps into my bones, the views lift my spirits, and my fibro pain…

  • Movement and Mechanics

    Tomorrow is the annual Writing Retreat in Spain. It’s a little bittersweet, as it will likely be the last one. At least for a few years.  It’s making me think about writing, and the teaching of writing. An author I work with asked some good questions about the next stage…

  • Britches

    In your twenties, you know everything. And if you don’t, you figure it’s not worth knowing.  Hopefully you outgrow that attitude, eventually. You realise that opinions around you may vary. You realise that listening and puzzling and then making a decision is a good idea. You also realise there are…

  • The story continues 

    I’m really excited to tell you guys that my second book in the Afterlife, Inc series is out this month.  Fury’s Choice follows the second fury sister, Tisera, and the suave Kera. I hope you’ll give it a try. You can find it, along with the first one, Fury’s Bridge,…

  • Will you? 

    Why do you write? What drives you to sweat, swear, and despair over the worlds and characters you create?  What creates the need to put black on white for as long as it takes to spill the story into the world?  I’d very much like to know… Will you share? 

  • Sleep working 

    I don’t understand how we can already be at the tip of August. Where has the rest of the summer gone? Washed away by the copious, cold drops that continually fall out of the English sky, perhaps…  Or something.  All I know is that we’ve got an insanely hectic month…

  • Sitting on History

    Wouldn’t it be amazing to be the kind of writer whose works were read and celebrated for centuries beyond their death? Homer is still read in universities everywhere. The Iliad and the Odyssey are so old we’re not even fully certain when it was written (late 8th or early 7th century BCE).  Imagine…

  • Languid

    I’m from California. I learned how to rollerskate at Venice Beach. I camped out beside beachside bonfires with friends. I played in the sand as a child, and wave jumped with friends as a teenager. I learned how to scrape the Santa Monica tar from my soles the way only…

  • Pre-event pondering

    I’m sitting in a Costa with an enormous mug of coffee: And I’m just kind of being. The people beside me are discussing psychology type things. The kids across the way are talking about how great it will be to get to Junior school. The place is alive with conversations. …

  • A Blog Under Any Other Name…

      Would sound similar? I have no idea where I was going with that title. But if you’re interested, I’m blogging under my pen name, Brey Willows, over on the Bold Strokes UK blog site. It would be super awesome if you’d check it out. And maybe have a gander…