Day three of no laptop/computer and so far, I’m still… sane. Well, maybe I was a bit cranky last night but it helps to have an iPad and a few wireless keyboards to make sure you still hit that word count each day. Right now, I should be writing but it’s a steamy sex sceneContinue reading “Saturday Distractions”
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Under My Skin
I’m slowly re-learning how I roll when it comes to writing the stories I love even if it means falling in love with my heroes and heroines. I need to have them crawling under my skin until I have no choice but dream about them and think about them until I can’t take it anymoreContinue reading “Under My Skin”
Four Days
Songs have always inspired most of my stories and Breaking the Rules is no exception. For months, I agonized over the Prologue the way it appears. I’d take it out, rewrite the beginning and then put it back in and then rewrite the beginning again. I was too afraid that it would turn readers off—andContinue reading “Four Days”
Five More Days
While finalizing the playlist for Breaking the Rules, I realized I hadn’t shared some of the songs that inspired the story. There are a few but I’ll start with Sawyer’s song, Are We Too Late by singer/songwriter Tom Leeb. Excerpt Half an hour later, I step out of Tyler’s nursery and find Sawyer drying the lastContinue reading “Five More Days”
A Thousand Words In
A Special Gift
One of the songs that inspired Everything She Ever Wanted, was New Mexico by Dorian Spencer. I must have heard it around 2007 or so and I bought it and saved it into my iPod. Whenever I’d feel down, I’d listen to it and it always made me smile. Some songs are just like that –Continue reading “A Special Gift”
Back To the Beginning
Three years ago today, I was writing a story about a woman at the end of her rope who finds herself faced with new possibilities when she runs into a handsome idealistic doctor on the Strand, a 22-mile bike path that stretches from Will Rogers State Beach to Torrance Beach. Her story was inspired by John Legend’sContinue reading “Back To the Beginning”
Musings Over Coffee (That’s Still Brewing): Life is Too Short
No matter how often I tell myself and everyone to do what they want to do and write what they want to write, I still have this (un)conscious desire to please everyone. So it’s no surprise when I feel devastated when someone leaves scathing reviews like, “I’m glad I didn’t shell out any money for this book butContinue reading “Musings Over Coffee (That’s Still Brewing): Life is Too Short”
Musings Over Morning Coffee: Empty L.A. and Angelfall
In his project EMPTY LA, photographer Matt Logue crafts a post-apocalyptic version of the city without a car or person in sight. The effect has a lot of impact, making the congested City of Angels resemble a ghost town. Source: Here’s What LA Would Look Like If It Were Completely Deserted – UpOut BlogUpOut Blog AsContinue reading “Musings Over Morning Coffee: Empty L.A. and Angelfall”
Tied to You #MusicMonday
I’ve got a few posts coming up but first, this is one of the songs that is not letting go of me this morning. It usually means a story’s coming up from characters already set inside my head (side characters, usually) even though I am writing (or trying to write) a new story under aContinue reading “Tied to You #MusicMonday”
Liz Durano 