Rebeca Schiller

Like all writers I get my ideas from everything. It could be from a book, an article, a photograph, a dream, eavesdropping on a conversation, whatever.  But sometimes the best ideas come from one unusual place–the shower. Okay, it’s not that unusual for writers.

The shower is the place where you can come up with a new concept, iron out a tricky scene, come up with a lede for an article that’s stumping you. It’s great to organize your thoughts, relax, or plan out your writing day.  Once that hot water hits your head, and trickles down to your shoulders and the rest of your body, you lather up and your brain starts to loosen up with the steam and it’s full speed ahead with the ideas.

Sounds good, huh? Well, it was until this past Tuesday when our boiler went pffft. No hot water. Oh no. Well, no big deal. The

I stumbled upon one terrific blog while researching my top 50 writing blogs (I’m keeping it secret for the time being, but so far this one is really a winner). I’m about half way through the first year’s posting and all the information the author provides is priceless. After reading several of the posts, I realized that I’m no where near in finishing writing or revising Julius. 

So what was my aha moment? Actually there were several. First, I need to cut several scenes in Book One that don’t help the story move forward. Plus, it needs conflict, conflict, conflict. Much more than I have. I see numerous scenes that what I’ve created in the second part that need to be moved up much earlier to the first.

As much as I love having these epiphanies that will make the story better, I have to add an “Oy” because it’s more work,