February, 2023 - J. E. Mullane

How far would you go?

February 16, 2023

How far would you go to bring retribution to someone guilty of a terrible wrong? This is a question I’m wrestling with in a book I have yet to publish. Whenever I revisit it, I find myself continually wanting to tweak something here and there. I really struggle with when to restructure a sentence, or find a better adjective, or just cut a couple paragraphs of what might be unnecessary filler. I know I’m not alone in this; I have spoken with other authors who have the same issue. When is what I’ve written “done?” I know if I…

Ideas

February 2, 2023

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Where do you get your ideas? Over the years I have seen or read quite a few author interviews and this question always pops up in one form or another. I have a vision of the author rolling his or her eyes, gritting their teeth, trying to be as pleasant as possible while answering a question they are patently sick to death of. So, it may seem strange that after my first novel was published and I was actually asked that question myself, I was totally unprepared as to how to address it. The truthful answer to the question…