Lindsay Randall

I’m happy to share that I will be a guest on Lauren Royal’s blog this week! I’m a huge Lauren Royal fan, so I’m silly-excited to be part of her blog. I’m truly enchanted by her writing–every book is beautifully written and wonderfully researched. Visit the blog beginning this Tuesday, May 21. Post a comment [...]

Like ice that forms drip by drip, every word I write should form a moment (and ultimately a world) that defines my main character. That’s what I tell myself when I sit down to write. I am looking for magic as I play with description and dialogue. I throw out more words than I keep [...]

  My writing challenge: Create a poem utilizing the following ten words. courage :: cloud :: angles :: retreat ::  instant :: columns :: oak :: monastery :: lemon :: gate  Believe it or not, an image is brewing in my head. I especially love the first word, “courage.”  It becomes the energy for the poem–it’s title [...]

I’ve been writing by firelight lately. Candlelight, too. The energy in a lick of flame intrigues me–and keeps me company as I create. The hiss of moisture as its drawn out of a log in the fireplace always captures my attention. I like the unexpected snaps and cracks, and the burst of sparks that sometimes [...]

Even though I’m revising a few older stories, I continue to chip away at carving out the character of Vivienne. I’m finding it helpful to create a few childhood memories for her, fragments of which I’ll use throughout the story. The better I get to know her, the more depth she will have. Mostly, though, [...]

… a new story idea, that is. I absolutely love when a new character comes into my life. One arrived recently. Her name is Vivienne. I am getting to know her–her past, her present. She was born in France in 1786. She and her parents were forced to emigrate to England during the height of the [...]

Have been in search of the perfect pumpkin. Of course, I found more than one! Now I am on the hunt for that perfect moon photo… Love this time of year.

One night, I set up my watercolors near a roaring fire and just played. During the next several days, I’d glance at the images I’d created and see what, if anything, caught my eye. One of my “play pages” held what appeared to be a dragon. At first, I thought the dragon could be the [...]

Fall freely from that high cliff jagged with indecision. Push off from land that leaves you locked. Let mind and body hurl forward as your eyes close…and the universe reaches out to catch you.

My dad has always been my rock in life.  I can honestly say he never lost his temper with me.  Maybe it’s because I’m the youngest in our family; by the time I got old enough to push limits, my brother and sister had busted through all of them years before. Whatever the reason, he [...]