write what you know

Writing helps me to connect all the aspects of my life. I made many eclectic career choices and in each case, I’ve been a writer: a writer of songs during my music career; of recipes during my mother/wife/self years; of policies and procedures during my time in offices; and of technical manuals during my natural healing years. These offered me different experiences, which I’ve distilled into something useful, and that I can now write about and weave into my fiction—romantic suspense.

By 2018, I’d written a few dozen songs, twenty-nine courses manuals, two cookbooks, four children’s books, several books of poetry, and a couple of inspirational books. Fifty books in sixty-two years; mostly non-fiction. I decided to retire from my day job and pursue writing fiction, and poetry—which to me is like breathing. There was a lot to learn. 

These last several years have been the most gratifying of my life as far as writing goes. Bringing it all together. Spinning tales that include some of my positions, pursuits, joys, and sorrows. As mentioned in ‘Note to Reader’ at the front of my novels, I love to write about our travels to the Oregon Coast. That’s the reason it’s set in the US and not in Canada. I know that area intimately. Write what you know.

As my world shrinks due to health issues, my writing life expands and fills in the void. It’s something I can still do. So I do it every day and will continue for as long as I can. 

What is your passion? What gets you up in the morning and keeps you up until the wee hours? Is there something you obsess about and can’t wait to get home (or go out) and get cracking on it? I’d love to know more about my reader’s lives, so leave your story in the comments.

Love Lyn