by Pamela Beason | Jun 6, 2012 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
When I was a teenager, I bought my horse Comanche, and I then spent a lot of the next two years exploring the Oklahoma countryside on horseback with my friend Kristy and her horse. The times I spent outdoors with Comanche are some of my fondest memories of childhood,...
by Pamela Beason | Apr 10, 2012 | Natural Wonders, The Writing Life
When I took a creative writing class in high school, our instructor gave us an assignment to choose a natural object like a stone or a stick or a leaf for a “friend” and carry it around with us for a week and talk about what it told us. The other students...
by Pamela Beason | Feb 3, 2012 | Saving Money, The Writing Life
And I do mean learn anything. Because you never know when you’re going to need a skill or an esoteric bit of knowledge. The knowledge element is especially true for novelists and private investigators like me because all those pieces of trivia come in handy when...
by Pamela Beason | Jan 19, 2012 | The Writing Life
I write mysteries and romances, but don’t think Agatha Christie and tea parties when you read that. I’m a pretty active gal, so most of my books contain a fair amount of action scenes, and I get more compliments on those pages than on any others, so I must...
by Pamela Beason | Nov 10, 2011 | Private Investigator, The Writing Life
Here are a few of the most important points I’ve learned from being a PI and how they affect my writing: There’s More Than One Side to Any Story – As a matter of fact, there are as many “sides” as there are people involved. Take a bar...