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Archives for February 2012

That Eureka Moment

February 22, 2012 by Rees Hinton

Writing is hard work. You would think that making stuff up as you lay on the beach with a mai tai in one hand and a cigar in the other, watching bikini-clad beauties frolic in the surf would be easy. I suppose it is if you write for the Sy FY Channel, where their concept of physics and common sense would make a small fry panelist on Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader pull out his/her hair. If you try to stay true to the writing craft, it gets difficult.

Get the facts straight; then make stuff up.

As a writer, have you ever had a Eureka moment when an idea comes to you out of the blue ether that ties your pseudo-science together or defines a character? It’s a sweet feeling to know that your subconscious has not only been keeping your moral compass pointed the right direction but has actually been working as an editor, for free! If you’re like me, little details sometimes bog you down. You write around them, hoping for just such a cosmological event to descend on you and guide your quill (Or Keyboard).

Beware! Your readers are smart. Probably smarter than you. You have to write better than a bad movie. You can always sell it as a screen play and let them butcher it for you. Having been both an avid reader as well as a dedicated couch potato, I find humor in the absurd in movies but disdain it in novels. I like for things to make sense in a senseless world. When I hid from life within the pages of a book, or my new Kindle Fire, I like to float along on a raft down the river with Tom Sawyer or fly with Icarus. I don’t like it when little nagging details take me back to reality. It sucks.

When you write, be true to your craft and your craft . . . Well, you know. Hope for that Eureka moment. Seek it out.

Keep writing. Keep reading.

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Spotlight on Author Kathryn Meyer Griffith

February 7, 2012 by Rees Hinton

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Today, I spotlight fellow Damnation Books author Kethryn Meyer Griffith. Here is how she describes herself.

Since childhood, I’ve always been an artist and worked as a graphic designer in the corporate world and for newspapers for twenty-three years before I quit to write full time. I began writing novels at 21 and have had fourteen (nine romantic horror, one historical romance and two mysteries) previous novels published from Zebra Books, Leisure Books, Avalon Books, The Wild Rose Press, Damnation Books and Eternal Press.

I’ve been married to Russell for thirty-three years; have a son, James, and two grandchildren, Joshua and Caitlyn, and I live in a small quaint town in Illinois called Columbia, which is right across the JB Bridge from St. Louis, Mo. We have two quirky cats, Sasha and Cleo, and the four of us live happily in an old house in the heart of town. Though I’ve been an artist, and a folk singer in my youth with my brother Jim, writing has always been my greatest passion, my butterfly stage, and I’ll probably write stories until the day I die.

Some of Kethryn’s novels include: The Nameless One, Evil Stalks the Night, The Heart of the Rose, Blood Forge, Vampire Blood and The Last Vampire.

Her websites are:

http://www.myspace.com/kathrynmeyergriffith (to see all my book trailers with original music by my singer/songwriter brother JS Meyer)

http:// www.bebo.com/kathrynmeyerG
http://www.facebook.com/#!/profile.php?id=1019954486

http://www.authorsden.com/kathrynmeyergriffith

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/profile.php?id=1019954486

http://www.jacketflap.com/K.Griffith

http://www.shoutlife.com/kathrynmeyergriffith

http://www.goodreads.com/profile/kathrynmeyergriffith

http://romancewriterandreader.ning.com/profile/KathrynMeyerGriffith

http://romancebookjunction.ning.com/profile/kathrynmeyergriffith

E-mail me at rdgriff@htc.net I love to hear from my readers.

Check out Kathryn’s website for some cool freebies.

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