I've always wanted to write a murder mystery. I'm a big fan of Columbo, Poirot, Jessica Fletcher and all the other sleuths. I've often felt the desire to create my own detective, but am held back by the perceived complexity of writing a mystery, and my own improvisational writing style. In other words, I feel …
The end is near!
I finally know how my novel ends. Yes, this sounds crazy considering that I'm 4ok + words in, but it's just how I work. I have a general idea of how things will go, but never any details until I get there. Well, I'm close enough now that I can see clearly what happens, and …
How to avoid looking back?
I never used to look back, to wonder or care about how I could have done things differently. Maybe it's part of getting older, but I've started having those thoughts more often. I started listening to a new book recently, 'Replay', about a man who dies, and wakes up 25 years in the past, in …
Wild Seed by Octavia E. Butler
Once again Butler has given me an unexpected ending to what I thought was going to be an 'another one of those' story. As I've mention in previous posts, the story is about two immortal and powerful characters with opposing desires. With this format in most writers hands you'd expect that one character would be …
Facebook? Do… do people use facebook still?
I have an author page on facebook that my posts have been auto posting to, and I pretty much never think about. I figure I better start doing face book related things there, so if you have any interest to follow me on the social media, click below: https://www.facebook.com/thejonasdavid/ Thanks!
Jonas David 