Hi! I’m Julie.  I’ve been living in my own world since I was a little girl and have never found my way out; I’ve only changed neighborhoods going from playing make believe to creating it on typewritten pages.

I’m happiest when I’m molding and sculpting words until I get them perfectly placed on a sheet of paper.  It doesn’t matter if I’m writing creatively, or for expository purposes, I make writing look easy.

It’s not easy, though, it’s a long laborious process in which I can spend hours discussing, but I believe the publishable product should look like it flowed from my fingertips onto the typed page.

Words have the power to teach.

I’m on two missions. The first is to be creative, setting my stories in a school environment opening my heroine up to being a teacher or student and where lessons can be taught through my beloved hero, or villain. A second mission is to incorporate expository help for those still in school, where students may post questions which may turn into future blog posts.  (There’s a story in this somewhere.)

So, hold on to your seat as my heroines take you on a plot twisting ride of love, friendship, coming of age lessons of self-respect and mystery where you’ll laugh hysterically, or want to reach into the page and just slap a character or two. After all, life is never dull when my characters are around.

I started writing in the last century, in high school as a matter-of-fact, when I received a hoopla of applause from my creative writing class after reading to them my newly created children’s story. At that moment I caught the bug!

As an undergraduate I took another creative writing class where my characters, Abner and Mable Schnerk, in a one scene play, set the class into a roar of laughter the professor called a short break to catch her breath. “Take a screenplay class; you have a flare for dialogue” was her only comment.  So I did. I wrote some television speculation scripts and landed two high power agents in the course of a few years. By the time I went to graduate school, I majored in English with an emphasis in Creative Writing. Writing was no longer a bug; it became a virus flowing through my veins.

Writing is my passion. I’ve taught at the local community colleges expository writing and I currently teach expository writing at the high school level because writing, good writing, has a process to be learned so the final product looks like it was easy.

By the way, here’s a little secret. This page wasn’t easy. It took me hours.