Some days it pays to be at the front of the alphabet. My surname for the past 18 years, Amsler, is often mispronounced. My favorite butchering was via the hostess at Red Lobster in Lafayette, Indiana who used the loud speaker to call for “Hamster Party of two. Hamster party.” (And who wouldn’t want to go to a Hamster party?)…

I write almost every day of the year–either for clients or on my fiction projects. But I have been a miserable blogger. Since NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is so effective for me to complete my first drafts, I decided to give the A to Z Blogging Challenge a try.

As an aspiring fiction writer, I often write about complicated …