With American Horror Story: Asylum now ended (*sob*) and Downton Abbey also nearing its finale, I was looking for something to fill my leisure time (like I have any) and remembered an old miniseries I watched back in the eighties:

WINDS OF WAR, based on the Herman Wouk novel.


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1. It started out as a NANO novel in 2005, which means it technically took me over 5 years to write story (though more like 1 1/2 once I really got into it).

2. The first 50,000 words were written for adults, not YA. Yep, with sex scenes and everything.

The MC was Liza, a has-been journalist who escaped to River Hills after a scandal that ruined her ( Read more... )

--and how many names did they have? Did you change them as you were writing, or are you still searching for the perfect name? How do you choose them?

SAY THE WORD: Shawna was originally Jena Gallagher. Then I wanted a female derivative of a male name so she could be named after her father. I changed it to Erica (and made her father an Eric). She ( Read more... )