Growing up, I saw Virginia Slims commercials on TV. I can’t even fathom those commercials being on TV today. Can you imagine? Anyway, that jingle was in my head this past weekend, when during a procrastination tactic, I decided to open a file that sparked my writing journey. The file contained my first “focused” novel. I’ve written other “novels” if I can really call them that---but this was the first one I really worked on seriously. I had just graduated college and couldn’t … [Read more...]