Of course, a lot of what I write is still being graded. Even when it isn’t, I like to try to set a good example.

Anybody wanna check it out?

I appreciate your observation about not writing down stories until you stopped playing them out with toys.

Only, I never did the Barbie thing; mom didn’t want barbies in the house. I had loads of My Little Ponies. And each one had his/her own personality and family group.

Makes me wonder (in a chicken and the egg way) if our play-modes as children affected the stories we tell: i.e., you with the barbies and Romance Novels and me with fantasy (and family-group) animals and writing… what I write.

Makes me think…

Wanna run a survey among your writer-readers?

In my first book, the heroine’s mother was great fun to write. She had such spunk and sass and even though she had so much love for her daughter, she dug herself into a whole so often. Very fun to write!

The answer is yes. I tend to have some bizarre dreams. And sometimes they have complete plots. Like the one I had where I was a cop or private detective and I was working with someone to find his abducted wife.

The one time that I really have written based on a dream though (and not just filed it away or later) was when I was in junior high – I had to write a short story for English. I had a dream – and voila it became The Four. Sounds scary, right? No – now its something that just gives me the giggles when I go back and read it. If I had it on disk I would post it, but alas, I don’t.

Interesting boyhood fact: Princess Leia had the privilege of being the toy room slut by default of being the only female action figure I owned. Period. Your Ken doll may have had a tough time getting Barbie to like him, but the all out wars that took place over Princess Leia had a higher body count than Saving Private Ryan and The Return of the King combined.

The more you know!

See my answers to the questions