My November guest, Nikki Brooke, shared The Emotional Thesaurus, A Writer’s Guide to Character Expressions and I’m getting so much out of it that I bought two more in the series.

I was expecting lists of words I could peruse for inspiration and variety in my writing. There is so much more! Fantastic insights and advice on character development, making them relatable, real, and layered–ways to give them the true breath of life as they reach through the pages and pull the reader in by the shirt collar.

Just sharing…

We’re experiencing a 32-hour power shut down, one of those deliberate outages in case of weather emergency type of things legislatures are passing now. So, I’m reading real books while enjoying the remaining daylight.

We live in a windy high desert valley. For 25 years… so much wind, all times of the year. Now, a windstorm warrants emergency power measures while everything goes dark. Thank goodness for generators and a husband who knows all about electrical stuff. I’ve got four minutes to get this published and then we switch to powering the heat.

Happy Winter everyone!