The following is a guest post by Gerrie Ferris Finger, author of Running With Wild Blood. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I appear on lots of panels, do radio, answer blog questions, go to book festivals and am, without fail, asked this question. How do you construct your plots? Do you outline or do you write “by…
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The relationship between writing and doctoring
The following is a guest post by Raymond Barfield, author of The Book of Colors. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. I graduated from medical school in 1993 and from residency in 1996. Work hour limits for medical students and residents were established in 1997 (the new rule was that students and residents can work no more than 80…

The Spirit of Iris – The Story behind the Story
The following is a guest post by Rocky Rochford, author of The Spirit of Iris. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. The Spirit of Iris was always going to be a book I wrote. The genre, the style, even the story is something that has been with me for a long time and therefore it was always just a…

Beating Writer’s Block – Your New Year’s Resolution
The following is a guest post by John Mathews, author of A Game of Greed and Deception. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. It’s 2015 and you’ve probably made a mental list of what you hope to accomplish and improve upon in the next year. If you’re anything like me, you want to make changes that create lasting…

Playing God – Creating Characters with Depth
The following is a guest post by Nancy Moore, author of The Vicar of Wrynbury. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. Some characters in books are so well represented and voiced that they seem real to the reader. You can see the look they give when they are frustrated or how that lock of hair hangs over their…

Louisiana Fever by DJ Donaldson
The following is a guest post by DJ Donaldson, author of Louisiana Fever, the latest installment in the Southern Suspense Series. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. The Book When Kit goes to meet an anonymous stranger—who’s been sending her roses—the man drops dead at her feet before she could even get his name. Game on. Andy Broussard soon…

I Write From What I See… In My Mind, That Is
The following is a guest post by Stan Yocum, author of Unrelenting Nightmare. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. My creative inspirations often come from my mind’s eye. I begin to write a scene, describing characters interacting with one another, and as I continue my mind starts visualizing the scene. I can see the characters talking, and…