by A.L.Debran | Aug 15, 2008 | Reader News
Thank you, Claudine, for having me over for coffee and chit-chat. It was fun. Now, here goes my free association responses. I’m bending the rules a bit because the first things that popped into my head were phrases instead of a single words. Pink – is...
by A.L.Debran | Aug 15, 2008 | Claudine
My writing advice to all writers it a Richard North Patterson quote that I have taped to the bottom of my computer monitor. I don’t consciously read it every single time I look at my monitor, but subconsciously, I know it’s there and what it says. It is...
by A.L.Debran | Aug 14, 2008 | Claudine
Naming a character is as important an undertaking as naming your own child. Is there a more perfect coupling of names to characters than Rhett Butler and Scarlet O’Hara? Me thinks not. I like this quote by H.G. Wells. He was referencing the name Euphemia....
by A.L.Debran | Aug 13, 2008 | Claudine
I’ve written to entertain myself since I was but a wee lass and through my school years, I entered essay contests and such. I won several. Then adult life descended and children arrived and my writing took on a therapeutic role. I was living literally in the...
by A.L.Debran | Aug 13, 2008 | Reader News
Thanks for the introduction, Claudine, and I apologize for not posting earlier. My alter ego had a longggggggggggggg day at work, but I’ll be here all day tomorrow and Friday. Anyway, I’m A.L.Debran and I typically write historicals of the western nature. I say...