B. J. Winters

The original title for this story was Homecoming.  It was written via email over two years ago with a friend of mine.  And it was important, personally for me to put this together in a more finished format.  For now, I'll let this rest.  I think I'll polish it some more next year.  There is an annual contest I've seen that might be worth submitting to.   For now, I did what I needed to do and have a sense of closure.

I always wanted Cole a...

I wasn't really into the whole publication thing until it became a challenge.  It's an obsessive game now where I try to balance my personal pride with my compassionate nature.   I need to get back to writing, not marketing - but I'm not sure how to get back on track.   Both actually seem to be high stress these days.

So, I put a personal challenge in place and I shall be posting a revision to Second Sight later this week.  I decided ...

For the last month I have spent countless hours trying to distill the content of Ghost Writer in to a brief synopsis - 8 or 9 magic sentences for an agent query letter.  And after 1) doing my research, 2) finding a name and checking it ten times, 3) writing a letter, a 2 page synopsis and polishing the first 10 pages of the novel and 4) spending half the day trying to format the stupid email.....I hit "send" about an hour ago.

I think I'm gonna be sick.  And I'm n...

I'm one of those people that likes to plot more than I like to write.  And when I start to write, things I never thought of appear on the page.   It's a bit odd, and sometimes rather interesting.  I can usually only see one chapter ahead -- sometimes as little as one scene.

I don't use an outline.  I actually hope that I'll write myself into a corner for the sheer pleasure of figuring out how all the pieces fit together - as though I'd planned it al...

Have you ever seen a black witch moth?

A predictive omen of death in some latin cultures.  They are not the largest moth, but typically are 6 inches or larger and intimidating enough to be mistaken for bats.

In Spanish:::
Las polillas se alojan en ciertas partes de nuestras casas ya que, al ser de hábitos nocturnos, durante el día b...

I've left my story Isle unfinished for a number of months now.  I'm not sure that I'll write the final chapter at this point.  While I don't like to leave this incomplete, I'm not inspired to write the closing piece.  Or, more to the point, to edit the story overall.

If anyone wants to know exactly what is going on with Miles - I'll post the myth here and let you make your own conclusions about whether he will be able to pilot an airplane off the island....