Building the Fictional House

There’s a very cute little meme on the Interwebs that is supposed to be a writer’s Mission StatementÂfor the day. It goes like this:

1) Drink coffee.

2) Make stuff up.

Sounds good. Gives writers a chuckle. But it’s only partly true. Yes, we do make some stuff up. But I’m realizing as I work on the project I can now talk about (Devil’s Daughter,ÂBook One of the Lucinda’s Pawnshop series from Bird Street Books), that a great deal of what I do as a writer is handed to me whole by Life,...