by marciadmin | Jun 25, 2016 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Round Robin Topic for June: How emotionally involved do you need to be to read or write some scenes? Emotion. It’s what I hope to evoke from someone who picks up my books and reads them. (It’s what I hope will happen when I read a book, too.) I want the person to see...
by marciadmin | Oct 24, 2015 | Round Robin, Thoughts, Writerly Talk
This month’s Round Robin topic is: Do you believe in angels, spirits, ghosts, demons or other ethereal beings or locations? What do you think when they appear in stories? Have you used them in your own stories. Absolutely. There’s too much in this world...
by marciadmin | Sep 19, 2015 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Topic: What current issues are important to you? How often do modern social or global issues are addressed in some way in your stories no matter what era or genera you write? I have several current issues that are important to me, but they are very controversial. As I...
by marciadmin | Jun 27, 2015 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Round Robin 6-27-15 Every person has good and bad traits, everyone does both good and bad things and we certainly have plenty of examples emerging from our various media. There is a precipice each character stands on–one side is too good to be true, the other...
by marciadmin | May 23, 2015 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
This month’s the Round Robin is about: What changes have your seen in romance novels in the past decade? Is there a change in romance novel direction? Is there still a market for non-explicit sex stories? When I first started publishing some 15 years ago, romance had...
by marciadmin | Apr 18, 2015 | Round Robin, Writerly Talk
Today’s Round Robin topic: What glues you to a story start to finish? And/Or what hooks do you use to capture your readers? This is an interesting question because I don’t generally think in terms of what keeps me reading, but rather in terms of what will...