The spring when I was thirteen, I was moving up a level in baseball. I was going from the iconic Little League to the lesser-known Senior Little League. This was the next level for those players who want to continue the sport through the early teen years. Of course, that also meant fewer, more serious players. These were the players who loved the game beyond just pleasing their parents.
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All characters in a story should have a complex personality.
A full complex character history.
Even the bad guys.
Enzo is that guy in The Judas Legacy.
You’ll catch yourself empathizing with him as you root against him!
There are times when I just get lost. Lost in a story sitting in my mind, screaming to get out.… Read More »Writing and Music
Timing is incredibly serendipitous. My last entry was about the themes in my manuscript. Accidently, or accidentally on purpose, there… Read More »Flawed Fathers
Reading books is a curious pastime. We plunge into the book hoping it will take us away.
If it’s fiction, we’re hoping it will take us to a new world we never knew before or introduce us to a new character we identify with.
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When I was sixteen my dream was to make it in the Major Leagues. What red-blooded young North American doesn’t dream of making it to MLB or NHL or NBA?
Read More »Major LeaguesPeople might ask why there is such a gap between blog posts. For the same reason there was such a… Read More »We’re Not Just Dreaming