How My Location Helps My Writing by Joan Ramirez

I have two locations for writing. One is the family home in Staten Island where I can walk in a nearby park and relax while looking at nature and wildlife. I do what they call Mind Mapping. As I walked through one day while calming my mind from a stressful morning, I thought about the protagonist, Margo, in my romance novel called Secret Desires. I’d planned to have her go to the family cabin in