In my upcoming novella collection, We Three Kings, I’m writing a contemporary story to follow two historical stories. It’s basically three billionaire romances where the heroes come from the same family, and they make their money from gold in the 1800s, frankincense in the 1900s, and myrrh in modern day (my story). The family name […]
What’s Your Name? What’s Your Story?
Characters are the most important element in the story for me as a writer and a reader. So getting to know my characters tops the list. Often the actually writing helps me know my characters. I know some writers interview the characters to learn about them, but that doesn’t work for me because I am […]
What’s in the Name and a #Giveaway
If you were wondering whether the cup in the above picture is for the giveaway, you’re right (details are at the end of this post). These Russian porcelain cup and saucer have famous cobalt net and genuine 22K gold and are hand decorated by an artist. My last name means green in Spanish. My maiden name means […]
What’s In A Name? by Merrillee Whren
Ever since a fellow writer mentioned obscure holidays, I’ve had so much fun writing about them on different blogs. In recent blog posts, I’ve talked about National Potato Chip Day, Maryland Day and National Fluffernutter Day, just to name a few. As I write this a few days ahead of the scheduled post, I discovered […]
The Name Game
Recently a fellow author and I were guest speakers at a local retirement center. One of the questions that really generated a lot of interest among the audience was about how we name our characters and where we get the names we use. One lovely lady asked me to list some of the unusual names […]