Lessons learned from my life maneuvers! Asking Around I was in Phoenix, having just finished up a long distance relay race. And I needed a last minute airport hotel. (I had failed to plan ahead.) I grabbed one at the last minute using one of those those travel sites on my smartphone and booked an …
Welcome to My Nightmare – Writing about Destitution, Abuse, and Revisiting Trauma
She has waist-length black hair. She wears all black. She is usually wearing a band shirt of a punk or industrial band. She is covered with tattoos and scars, all over her body. And she’s six feet tall. Miranda Scholl is a major supporting character in my last two published works: A long Slow Aftermath …
Little Library Encounter – An Excerpt from my novel A Long Slow Aftermath
An excerpt from my recently published novel A Long Slow Aftermath,. Preston visits his favorite little library in the middle of the night and has an unexpected encounter. This scene is the introduction of Miranda, a major supporting character in this work, as well as my latest publication The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright. …
Punks Working Out – – Novel Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright
This is an excerpt from my new two books series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright. This excerpt is from the first book. Skye has let her friend and Narcotics Anonymous sponsor Lee talk her into trying out a fitness boot camp in an effort to try and improve her life. Little does she …
Evolution of an Epithet: The Dark Side of the Karen Concept
Karen (Slang) – Karen is a pejorative term for a white woman perceived as entitled or demanding beyond the scope of what is normal. The term is often portrayed in memes depicting white women who use their white privilege to demand their own way. – From Wikipedia “Where hides evil in my kingdom, then?” …
Quotes from my new two book series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright
These are selected quotes from my new two book series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright, the story of a wild rock and roller trying to hang on as her roller coaster life takes her on tragic twists and turns that could end up destroying her. These quotes are all from the first book. …
The Mississippi Lounge – Novel Excerpt from The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright
This is an excerpt from my new two books series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright. This excerpt is from the first book. Skye and her friends hang out at a popular watering hole in West Berkeley, talking about their current lives, their love lives, and their artistic pursuits. This work is the continuation …
Quotes and Easter Eggs – What’s in my new Two Book Series The Rise and Fall of Skye Wright
This month I am publishing my two book series about my wild rock and roll character Skye Wright, a character I’ve written stories about for years. You can read an excerpt here: http://needlepictures.com/tbd/2022/04/24/fast-and-frightening/ In this work I precede each chapter with a quote. Oftentimes it’s song lyrics, and other times it’s other writers, sometimes my …
The ones Who’ve inspired the Dynamite Chicks
The Dynamite Chicks is my character Skye Wright’s punk band. In my book series Skye and her old bandmate Annie get together and reform their band and start playing shows again. The Dynamite Chicks are a hard rocking, hard driving and raunchy rock and roll band. This fictitious band’s sound and style have been inspired …
How to follow the life of Skye Wright, my character come to life
“Just don’t pretend you know more about your characters than they do, because you don’t.” – Anne Lammott The first ever illustration of my character Skye Wright, for the cover of What the Hell Ever Happened to Yuri Rozhenko? Skye was never supposed to be a big deal. As I wrote before, she was only …