Tag: Ohio

  • The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio

    The Ghost Who’ll Be Coming to Ohio

    The text message at the top of this post (which I sent to Matt at 3:34 AM on 12/6/20) includes the date and time because my half-sister, Julie, died in 2016, before her birthday, which was December 3rd. I got the news of her death from my older son, Mark, who called Matt while we…

  • Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

    Trusting your characters to surprise you: 1400 words from Friday, reported a day late

    Writing yesterday went really well. I hit this awesome surprise, where one of my characters suddenly did something perfectly unexpected, showing up at my main character’s house with a cell phone video showing the impossible in action. It was exactly the weird and twisty wonderfulness that thrilled me, and made me laugh, and at the…