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Author: P. K. Abbot

P. K. Abbot writes character-rich thrillers. His Jersey Murder Series are exciting crime novels with very twisty endings. Before writing full time, he had a fascinating occupation. For twenty-five years he worked as a professional buyer in two different industries. In his career, he met hundreds of remarkable people and traveled to Europe and throughout the United States. On February 21, 2011, he experienced a life-changing event. On that day he went into V-fib — ventricular fibrillation. He would have died that afternoon, but his implanted defibrillator discharged seven times within two minutes that day. After the fourth intensive shock to his heart, he questioned if he would have the stamina to survive the ordeal, but survive he did. He spent the next thirteen days in cardiac intensive care in the hospital and the following four months in recovery at home. After that experience, he decided to devote himself to writing, and he has been writing full time ever since. He grew up around Trenton, New Jersey and attended high school and college in Philadelphia, where he studied writing, languages, and history. He also served for six years as a military policeman in the United States Army National Guard. Today he is the proud father of two talented young women, and he lives in a small town in southern New Jersey with his wife and dozens of imaginary characters.

Ideas are like rabbits…

A warren of rabbits eating.

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

—John Steinbeck

John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck
Posted on April 3, 2021March 27, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags ideas, Steinbeck, WritingLeave a comment on Ideas are like rabbits…

Writer’s Block…

…when your imaginary friend refuses to talk to you.

Posted on April 2, 2021March 27, 2021Categories HumorTags Humor, WritingLeave a comment on Writer’s Block…

A Writer’s Power

The writer, Sinclair Lewis
Sinclair Lewis

Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.

—Sinclair Lewis

Posted on April 1, 2021February 22, 2021Categories Humor, Reflections, WritingTags Humor, Sinclair Lewis, WritingLeave a comment on A Writer’s Power

Suspicious…

Alfred Hitchcock

I’m a writer and, therefore, automatically a suspicious character.

—Alfred Hitchcock

Posted on March 31, 2021March 27, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags WritingLeave a comment on Suspicious…

Like driving a car…

Photo of E. L. Doctorow
E. L. Doctorow

Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.

—E. L. Doctorow

Posted on March 30, 2021March 27, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Writing, writing lifeLeave a comment on Like driving a car…

And then Satan said…

And then Satan said, "Make them write a synopsis."

And then Satan said, “Make them write a synopsis.”

…if you’ve ever self-published a book, you know what this means. Thank you, Elisabeth Wheatley.

Posted on March 29, 2021March 27, 2021Categories Humor, Reflections, WritingTags Humor, WritingLeave a comment on And then Satan said…

Creativity

Albert Einstein

In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.

– Albert Einstein

Posted on March 28, 2021March 27, 2021Categories opinion, ReflectionsTags creativity, HappinessLeave a comment on Creativity

First Draft

Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

– Terry Pratchett

John Steinbeck
John Steinbeck

Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down.

—John Steinbeck

Posted on March 27, 2021March 20, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Writing, writing lifeLeave a comment on First Draft

Description

Stephen King
Stephen King

Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.

—Stephen King

Posted on March 26, 2021March 20, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Stephen King, Writing2 Comments on Description

The only way

Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood

Any form of human creativity is a process of doing it and getting better at it. You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.

—Margaret Atwood

Posted on March 25, 2021March 20, 2021Categories Reflections, WritingTags Margaret Atwood, WritingLeave a comment on The only way

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