writing
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Humor in Paradiso As much as I’d like to channel Terry Pratchett into Paradiso, I have a feeling that it would just come across as forced. I’m not clever enough to be a satire writer, no matter how much I’d love to, so I’m leaning into my strengths. Plus, this story isn’t really a light
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Character Quirks One of the quirkiest characters in Paradiso happens to be the first character (as of right now) that the readers meet: Brick LaMasse. He’s a night shift janitor at a local hospital, and he fully enjoys being what he calls a “day snoozer.” Although he keeps to himself, usually because of the time
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Do your characters believe in luck or fate? Okay, so the cast of characters that I am working with is pretty extensive, so I think that what I’m going to do is focus on a single character for each question that resembles this one. That way, it won’t get too repetitive and you’ll kind of
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For the month of April, I’m taking a challenge I saw over on … Bluesky I think? Although it probably started out over on Instagram …
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I cannot remember the exact moment that I realized Christianity was not for me, and honestly, I don’t think there was one. It was just a myriad of occurrences, a thousand tiny cuts, one slap too many, that drove me away, but not in a bombastic way. Oh no, my friends, that faith went out
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don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
a little more juju 