Marilyn's Musings

Thank you, Marilyn, for asking me over! I’m always honored to visit, especially since you’ve been such an inspiration to me. For this post, Marilyn so kindly said I could talk about whatever aspect of writing I liked. What fun —and my thoughts eventually landed on “doing a sequel,” then moved on from there to the larger concept of “the winding-road-of-writing.” As you all know, Marilyn writes TWO series —but for me and my few books, it’s been standalones until my latest. So, I’m talking about only one little sequel , and that may seem like not such a big deal, but for me, it was huge. I didn’t realize how huge until about the middle of writing Counsel of Ravens . I’ve mentioned on blogs before how certain locations seem to reach out, grab me, tell me there’s a story there. And from that initial spark, my mind moves on to characters, plot, etc. Intertwined in that process— I think —is also a liking for dropping in on characters, not only at a particular spot, but in...