Well at the convention I went to, I learned that I'm a 'panter', new term for me. It means I write by the seat of my pants and I do.

I always have an idea of what I want to write, a very basic story line. With Grim, it was males needing females. The 'aliens' never truly knowing what it was to be loved and cared about, that they always had to be fit and worthy and what would happen if their most feared but unfit warrior fell in love. For Lisa it was can you really find love again after you've lost it, when you have children and if you do, does that mean your first love wasn't true?

That was it. Everything else just developed from there.

I do have binders full of different notes about names/relationships etc but sometimes when I'm writing I just write them on a piece of scratch paper, then I lose it and have to search for where I found a word or name again. 'Foabhor' is an example its a swear word in the Imperial series, it means little sh*t, little f**ker, etc, I found it by using a translator app but you think I can remember which one or which language. Since then I've learned to print screen those things.

That's about it for my 'process'. The only time I get more detailed is if I keep getting off track during a scene then I do an outline or timeline for it so I can cover all the points I want made.

M.K.