The leaves of a treewhose name I do not knowCling trembling stillamid other branches bare and brownAnd spot the ground beneath my feetblood red against the mudand shining rosy goldin the autumn sunDipping so low alreadyat not-quite-four in the afternoonMeanwhile an old gnarled hedge--see her name I do know-- squats nearbyits branches reaching farand ... View Post
Sometimes I forget things while writing a novel… and then I just roll with it.
Something I've been having a lot of fun with while sticking to the Writing Into the Dark process is the unpredictability of a novel's events. Even as the author... most times, I haven't a clue what's going to happen next. Sometimes that really freaks me out, yes. But as long as I stay in the characters' heads, as long as I can still feel/hear/see them... I just wait and watch. I let them figure it out. Then I write down whatever it is they happen to do. And frankly, so often I'm so ... View Post
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Friday Factoid: Most Outlaws Did Not Have Long Careers…
Friday Factoid is a blog feature where I’ll be sharing a little bit of background behind something from one of my books: ideas, characters, environments, pieces of research, you name it, it’s all fair game for the Friday Factoids! If you have a specific question, feel free to leave it in the comments or email me at jrfrontera@gmail.com! What will be featured this week? Read on to find out… About the rather short careers of most outlaws! If there's one thing much of our western fiction ... View Post
The history of Deadwood in my fictional town of Blessing…
Since the pandemic hit our area in mid-March 2020, the hubby and my son and I have pretty much hardly left our house. Since we can both work 100% from home now, and our son has started virtual schooling... well, we just don't have much reason to get out. Ever. But after nearly 6 months of this... we were FED UP. We needed a change of scenery... while still being as safe as possible. (None of us want to catch covid, no matter what the chances are of it being a severe case vs a mild case, just ... View Post
On writing another THE END…
This one got a bit long, so here's a TL;DR summary for you folks who have other things to do! Details in full post: I finished another novel, whoo!! My 4th solo-written novel ending and 7th overall novel ending in the last 7 yearsIt clocks in at 107,000 words, written in 5 months despite covid crazinessI've learned the following over my last 7 years of being an indie author: 1) DON'T TAKE YOURSELF SO SERIOUSLY 2) WRITE WHATEVER THE HELL YOU WANT 3) WRITE FOR YOU FIRST 4) YOUR WRITING PROCESS ... View Post
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