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Gretchen Altabef Read my first novel, THESE SCATTERED HOUSES.
Gretchen Altabef I am incredibly grateful that I have been able to write during this pandemic. And am researching and writing two very different new Sherlock Holmes Novels. One is presently at novella length. The other has just begun. But both are tugging at my petticoats to get on with it.
Gretchen Altabef For me, it's the writing. I love to write and do so from the moment my characters wake me up in the morning spouting dialogue until bedtime. Although writing is a solitary discipline, the connections with other writers, my publisher, my editors, and readers form a wonderful community that surrounds a writer. Plus the generosity of the worldwide Sherlockian Community is famous. I am incredibly grateful to be a part of it all.
Gretchen Altabef Write. Read Stephen King's book "On Writing." It's so much fun! Write.
Gretchen Altabef I am extremely blessed in that Sherlock Holmes is a very powerful muse. And I love to write.
Gretchen Altabef "Sherlock Holmes: These Scattered Houses" began with an old family mystery but as you will see it didn't stop there. Mr. Holmes faces some extraordinary challenges in New York.
Gretchen Altabef As writing is a right-brain activity, I find writer's block happens when I have been spending too much time working with my left-brain. My answer is to engage the right-brain. I follow Sherlock Holmes' lead and make music since I don't play an instrument, for me that's singing. Try it for a day and then go back to writing the next--it works!

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