Jaye Marie and Anita Dawes

I’ve been away from social media and blogging for about three days.  I needed a break.  I’m in the middle of writing the first book in a series to be released in June entitled The Last Terran and I had hit a creative bump in the road.

Sure I have the entire thing plotted out, have created 15K words of backstory, have written tons of character biographies, but something was missing.  I needed to recharge the creative juices.

It just so happened that my oldest daughter was invited on a camping trip by one of her friends, and as it so happened I didn’t really know her friend’s dad very well except when he came to the house to drop off or pick up said friend.  I asked politely if I could go, and he happily invited me along and said I could bring my son as well.

We met…