Characters Without Flaw

Writing is not for the faint of heart… or the lazy.

I realize the public thinks of authors as desk jockeys who stare out their windows all day until a burst of genius has them rattling their keyboards. All right, so yeah, that happens. But that’s the easy part.

Maybe some authors rattle their keyboards and produce perfect prose and indelible characters and a page-turning pace setter. I’m not one of them. Actually, my bursts of genius are so slow that I tend to sit in the sun like a cat and scri...