Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Tuesday's Writer's Tip - Make Each Scene Important #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #writing #scenes #importance

 Another tip to keep your plot moving forward is keeping each scene have importance. Stories are made up of scenes. Sometimes you write one that seems to flow easily and the writing is wonderful. But you have to ask yourself if the scene shows something vital to advancing the plot. I've done this many times while letting my characters tell the story. Then I must look at the scene and see what tension it brings to the plot. Describing what the characters are eating, seeing, hearing, touching, tasting might be wonderful but where is the added tension. Either you must cut the scene or rewrite it to add that touch on imoportance to what's really happening.

Cutting a scene is hard. You may look on it as your best writing. If you can's find or add that tidbit of tension and make the scene have importance to the story, out it goes. What you;re looking for is a single sentence, some inner thought or a bit of action that makes an importance to the scene. So always remember each scene must have that little element that adds to the plot.

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Monday, October 17, 2022

Meandering on Monday with Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #reading $writing #Thoughts

 Meander 1 - Reading - Am now reading Cherryth's series again. Learn more every time I read about maintaining a long series and keeping interest high.

Meander 2 - Thoughts - We are coming closer to an important election and I pray the people do get out and vote, taking care to select those who speak for democracy. I know I will and will read carefully before I put an X beside any of the candidates running. There are things to preserve and preserving them only will happen if the right people are elected. Things like abortion freedom, social security that we've paid into all out working years. There are other important issues so think and don't be swayed by false lies running around the country before you vote.

Meander 3 _ Writing - The new book Keltoi has been fairly well outlines and I'll be writing this in sections of three. Have begun the opening and am feeling good about what I've written so far.

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Sunday, October 16, 2022

Sunday's Book Choices #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #medical #hospital politics #romance

 

Johanna Gordon devotes her time and energy to her job as Director of Nursing at Hudson Community Hospital. With budget cuts hanging over her head, Johanna suspects the CEO of scheming a plan that threatens her job as well as the hospital, and she’s determined to find out why.

The choices she’s made for herself and her career leave her with no social life until she meets Dylan Connelly. He’s everything she’s always wanted, loving, devoted to his kids and everything she’s never had. Just when she finds love with the new man, an old flame returns with promises of a life together. Johanna has to decide between security and companionship, while trying to recapture the past, or moving forward with her new life.

Reviewed in the United States on December 5, 2016

Janet Lee Walters has provided her many fans with still another conflict-driven story that's filled with a realistic, edgy medical setting, a plucky proactive heroine, and a cast of secondary characters that portray all the foibles of the human condition. Joanna Gordon, Director of Nurses at a community hospital is faced with tough choices. She must stand up to the unscrupulous CEO, doing what she knows in her
heart is right, even if it costs her her job. Joanna grapples with choices in the romance department as well. While she is the epitomy of a driven career woman at the hospital, when it comes to matters of the heart, she's much more the soft kitten, just like her pet kitty at home. The book held my interest right until the end as I kept reading to know which man would win out. I wasn't disappointed!

All-in-all, this an enjoyable read that deserves a 5 star rating.

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Saturday, October 15, 2022

Books by Vijaya Schartz are featured at eclecticwriter.blogspot.com on Saturday's Blurbs #BWLAuthor #Nooks #Blurbs #Angel Ship #Angel Brave

 ANGEL SHIP – Blue Phantom Book One

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Desperate to save her people from the Marauders swarming her space freighter, Kefira prays for a miracle. Blake Volkov, legendary captain of the Blue Phantom hears her plea and deems her and her refugees worthy of his help. Grateful for the rescue, Kefira finds his price shocking. But despite his glowing wings, handsome looks and impressive abilities, Blake admits he is no angel… although Kefira’s feline bodyguard strongly disagrees.

Meanwhile, an old enemy bent on revenge unleashed an unspeakable evil on the galaxy. Time to face past mistakes… time for innocent blood to flow. Nothing prepared Kefira for the upheaval ahead.

Can Blake find redemption? Can Kefira save her people? Can she ever trust and love again?

ANGEL BRAVE – Azura Chronicles Book 3

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Keoke Mahoe slips through the forbidden planet’s impenetrable defenses to deliver a perilous message. But Lady Valoria fiercely protects Azura. Any intruder, especially one who kills for food, is promptly terminated.

While Valoria admires Keoke’s uncanny ability to cheat death, she cannot trust a spy. What he suggests is unthinkable... and could throw the galaxy into chaos. Yet, could he be telling the truth? She appreciates his audacity, his noble heart, and his smile… to the chagrin of Eris the Amazon, her best friend, bodyguard, and would-be lover.

But in the farthest confines of the galaxy, an old enemy is rising again. People are sacrificed by blood and fire on unholy altars. Malevolent armies are assembling, and this time, even Azura's Avenging Angels may not be able to stop the onslaught of darkness upon all civilized life.

MALAIKA’S SECRET – Byzantium Book Three

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Special Agent Tyler Conrad works security undercover on the Byzantium Space Station and adheres to a strict moral code. When strange beings with wings are murdered, and a dangerous lion wanders the station’s indoor streets, Tyler’s investigation leads him to a mysterious woman, who could make him break all his rules and get them both killed.

Forbidden to love, the beautiful Malaika, guardian of the glowing crystal in the temple of the Formless One, is an illegal mind-reader who hides perilous secrets. She has seen the great evil coming to Byzantium but must hide her extraordinary abilities or perish with her people.

When Admiral Mort Lowell, a hybrid Tenebran nicknamed the Vampire, makes a surprise visit to Byzantium, Tyler knows something wicked is afoot…

Author bio:

Award-winning author Vijaya Schartz never conformed to anything and could never refuse a challenge. She writes strong heroines, brave heroes, and cats. She likes action and exotic settings, in life and on the page. She traveled the world and claims she must be a time traveler, since she writes with the same ease about the far past and the far future. With thirty-three titles published, Vijaya Schartz writes action adventure laced with sensuality and suspense, in exotic, medieval, or futuristic settings. Her books collected many five-star reviews and literary awards. She makes you believe you actually lived these extraordinary adventures among her characters.


Friday, October 14, 2022

Friday Vijaya Schartz is Visiting and talking about being a Panster or Plotter #BWLAuthor #science fiction #cats #writing schedule

 

  1. Are you a panster or a plotter or perhaps a bit of both?

Long ago, when I started writing, I trusted my inspiration and wrote whatever the story wanted me to write. It seems ideal, but when you write for publication, on a strict deadline, you cannot afford to get stuck and have to rewrite the whole thing fifteen times. It would take a decade to write a book. Nowadays, I take the time to figure out where the story and the characters are going before I write chapter one. Then, after writing the first five or six chapters, I brainstorm again… usually because by that time I know a lot more about my characters, and can devise a better story.

  1. Which comes first - characters or plot for you?

A plot is nothing without good characters. Even if sometimes I have a plot idea from the start, I cannot start writing before I find the perfect characters to play their part in it. And often, the characters guide me to figure out the plot. Sometimes, they surprise me and don’t want to do what I expect of them. The ideas coming from them are often better than mine.

  1. What are you working on now? Is this a book in a current series or something totally new?

My latest book, ANGEL SHIP, Book One of the Blue Phantom series, was just release two weeks ago. Now, I am in the process of plotting Book Two, scheduled for October 2023, and defining the characters of this second instalment in the series. All my novels are standalones, even if sometimes a secondary character from a previous book becomes the main protagonist of the next one. So, I have to define new main characters for each book. It keeps a series fresh and keeps me excited about the writing.

  1. Do you have some kind of object or place that figures in most of your books? I use gems a lot, hospitals and caves.

In most of my science fiction stories, there is a fantasy side. Of course, there is space, spaceships, and alien planets. But there is also some kind of crystal. Crystal (Quartz) is capable of storing energy and knowledge, and could be the future of technology. To a less advanced society, that crystal, manifesting powers beyond understanding, could be considered magical. I also have a strong connection with cats, and don’t be surprise to find big cats with telepathic abilities, natural or technological, in many of my science fiction fantasy books.

  1. Do you write every day or just when the spirit hits?

I write every day. A professional author on deadline with a publisher must be organized, and schedule a regular time to write. Defining your best writing time is important. I noticed that I am more productive and better inspired to write in the morning. So, I adapted my schedule to get up earlier and write every morning for a few hours. I schedule my other activities later in the day.

  1. Where can we find you?

On my website: http://www.vijayaschartz.com

On Amazon: Amazon.com: Vijaya Schartz: Books, Biography, Blog, Audiobooks, Kindle

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  1. Who are your favorite authors? What about a book you’ve enjoyed?

The author who inspired me to write sci-fi romance is Linnea Sinclair, with her strong women characters. Early in my writing career I met and loved Diana Gabaldon, who since has become a very big name with the Outlander series. Before that, I was in love with the 19th Century French authors and poets of the romantic movement. As a child, and even later, my favorite books was “The Little Prince by Antoine de St. Exupery,” Later, I discovered DUNE by Frank Herbert, and I was hooked on Science Fiction.  


Thursday, October 13, 2022

Thursday A bit about the writing of Code Blue #MFRWAuhor #BWLAuthor #suspense #medical #hospital

I happen to enjoy medical suspense stories but as I was reading them, I began to think. The story was always titled Code Blue but the first publisher didn't like that and changed the title to Obsessions. That's because all of the characters have an obsession. Code Blue means a respiratory distress and I thought that was the right title for the book but I allowed the first publisher to let her title stand. When my rights were returned and I sought a new publisher I wanted the original title returned.

Why I wrote this book is interesting. Most of the medical suspense stories I read had an evil doctor orperhaps an evil nurse. I encountered while working as a nurse, a patient's relative who was determined to prove the patient in question had been killed during a Code. The question wasn't solved to the person's liking and thus the character was born. Then I began developing the other characters. The heroine became a widow who had been in an emotionally abusive marriage. She now though relatively young holds a man who could be her love interest at bay. She becoems the obsession of the man who likes and hates her.

The first time I began the story, I had the heroine be a young, new nurse. After about three chapters, the book stalled and I put it away for a time. Then slowlsy, the many characters took shape and the new versionhad an older heroine and many others who were to die during the book. I really had fun plotting out the story and developing the characters. But always my intention was to have a medical suspense without the evil doctor. 

 

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Wednesday, October 12, 2022

The Aries Libra Connection #MFRWHooks #BWLAuthor #Free #medical #romance #Astrology #Aries #Libra

 


 Join the authors at MFRWHooks here http://mfrwbookhooks.blogspot.com for some tempting excerpts. Mine is from the first book of Opposites in Love series found at eclecticwriter.blogspot.com  The Aries Libra Connection the first book in the series is free

Blurb:

Jenessa is Aries, a nurse, union advocate and likes a good fight.

Eric is Libra, Director of Nursing, and believes in compromise.

Can these two find a way to uncover the underhanded events at the hospital? They’re on opposite sides but the attraction between them is strong. She’s a widow who fought to save her husband’s life during a code. She feels guilty because the love she and her husband shared had died before his death. He assisted at the code but he feels guilty since he was the one who was responsible for the short staffing the night her husband died.

Now they face falling in love and trying to solve the problems between the nurse’s union and the president of the hospital’s Board who wants a take over of the hospital by his hospital group. Is their connection strong enough to survive?



Excerpt:

 The apartment door slammed. She looked up and saw her roommate. Megan kicked off her shoes. “Are you ready for a bomb? Guess what the Board has done.”

“Sandra.”

“Is out.” Megan grinned. “Josh and I were at the Cove for dinner. Sam introduced Eric Bradshaw. Would you believe he’s the new Director of Nursing? And what a hunk he is.”

Jenessa pushed back long strands of dark brown hair that had come loose from her braid. “You’re kidding.”

“Not one bit.”

“It’s a ploy. Can’t you hear Mr. Bishop’s laughter? We’ll give the girls a man to drool over. That’ll shut them up.”

“Come on, Jen. At least they didn’t name Her.” Megan headed across the living room, discarding pieces of clothes as she walked. “He’s every woman’s dream. Tall, blond, broad shoulders. I positively drooled. He’s got the greatest dimples. That’s because he’s a Libra.”

Trust Megan to ask his sun sign, Jenessa thought. Her roommate’s description confirmed her suspicions of the Board’s motives. “Sounds like you’re adding him to your string.”

“Wrong. A Libra and a Pisces. Odd couple material.” Megan’s blonde curls bounced with the force of her denial. “He’s for you, my Aries friend. Remember what I always say. An opposition can be exciting.”

Not again, Jenessa thought. For the past year, Megan’s attempts at matchmaking seemed designed to drive her crazy. “Megan, no.”

“You can’t be alone forever.”

“You’re surviving.”

“Alone I’m not. My problem is too many and being unable to hurt anyone.” She shrugged. “Give it a shot.”

Jenessa frowned. Megan and she had been friends since they were five, but there were things she couldn’t tell her… Things about Chuck and the marriage.

“I’m union. He’s management. Can you see me falling for someone from the opposition?”

“And what will you be when you finish your Master’s?”

“Not here. I’ll work for a doctor. Head to the city. Become a consultant.” She followed the trail of clothes and gathered them as she walked. “With my reputation here, they won’t promote me.”

“Your reputation is undeserved. Just because you organized the union, sent a petition to recall Sandra, started the protest forms, negotiated the contract…” The click of the bathroom door cut off Megan’s words.

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Tuesday, October 11, 2022

Tuesday's Writer's Tip - Change and Plot #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #writing #tip #plot #change

 When plotting your story, you must make sure your character experiences a change at the beginning of the book. The change may be small or large but the greater the change, the more powerful the ending. To have the character be essentially unchanged at the book makes the action seem static.

What does this change have to be? If a charactr is weak in the beginning, the change must show strength. Think of the heroine who is afraid to trust any man. Through the story she learns to trust. Sometimes a lot of action can make this change seem unnecessary. Many times in a mystery, the detective doesn't really change other than being successful in capturing the villain. So think about how your character will change as you write your book

 

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Monday, October 10, 2022

Meandering on Monday with Janet Lane Walters #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #reading #writing #Thoughts

 Meander 1 - Reading - While doing line edits on my coming release, I read a number of books to give me a break from the story. Ballroom Bash was interesting and a look at the 20's with all kinds of supernatural creatures. The Viscount and the Oephan, a nice Regency Romance,  Witch Unbound , an interesting offering from a new author to me, Angel Ship, sciencefiction with twists and turns and Deadman's Doll, a good mystery.

Meader 2 Thoughts - The eldection is coming closer and I hope things will durn right for this country. I've also been thinking about doing an op ed about Returning to the Old Days which weren't good. I was a nurse during the days when abortions were criminal mostly. I saw women die because of botched attempts. I also saw one abortion done at the hospital where the young woman was certified by a psychiatrist that if she had the child she would suicide.  Not sure if this was true since there was money behind this person. A woman's body is her own, not some man's to do with as he wishes. We are not handmaidens.

Meander 3 - Writing - Have just finished the painful line editing of Seppal and then must complete the last thing so I can send it out tomorrow. Have started plotting Keltoi, the last in that series.

 

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Sunday, October 9, 2022

Sunday's Book Code Blue #BWLAuthor #MFRWAuthor #medical #Susoense #hospital #nurses #doctors

 

 

In the medical suspense Code Blue by Janet Lane Walters, published by Books We Love and previously published as Obsessions, nurse Susan finds the body of the hospital’s “gossip queen” in the orthopedic storage room. She doesn’t realize this is the first of a series of murders involving her colleagues or that her life is in danger. She is a widow and is exploring a new romantic relationship that promises love but she fears the man she is falling for is as controlling as her dead husband. The arrival of courtship gifts, at first, seen as innocuous soon takes on a sinister note.

Reviews

This book kept me on edge from the first page to the last. Several times I just 'knew' I'd figured out who the killer was, but each time, there was a bit of doubt there until the very last paragraph! I highly recommend this book. 4 Stars (Excellent!)"--Tracie's Book Reviews by Kathy's Faves and Raves

"A series of murders, suspense, action, a tad of love makes OBSESSIONS an intriguing tale designed to mystify your mind. If you love mysteries, you'll love Janet Lane Walters newest release. 4 Stars!"--Just Views

"Fast-paced mainstream novel ... Walters plots carefully, each scene constructed to perfection. For readers who enjoy being terrified, this is an author to turn to for entertainment. She tells all, while managing to create paranoia among the characters."--Affaire de Coeur

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