Donna Galanti - The Element Trilogy

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What tales do your scars tell? Real or fake.

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Scars. Visible marks that hide the tales of our life. As the years pass my scars seem to accumulate. The chubby scar on my knuckle from when I sliced through my finger cutting bread as a child. I thought I'd make my parents breakfast in bed. Blood sausage, anyone? The long snake scar on my thumb that blazes white. A reminder of the day I slit my thumb open on my bike when I fell in the rain. The full moon scar on my knee from when I ran along a cobblestone path and fell on a spiky rock. The Read more [...]

Writing from the real places

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I often get asked if the characters in my paranormal suspense book A HUMAN ELEMENT are “me”. While yes, much of me is in my characters the question I don’t often get asked is “are the places in your book real?” Yes they are! Some places I re-named and some I didn’t. I'm sharing some of my photos of these places below that Ben Fieldstone and Laura Armstrong frequent in A HUMAN ELEMENT. From New York to Hawaii. I was a photographer in the U.S. Navy at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii as Read more [...]

What I learned from writing my first novel

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What I learned from writing my first novel Set a writing schedule. To put words on paper I had to set the alarm for 4:30AM and write in the cold and dark. Some days I didn’t feel like it. Those empty pages stared at me. But like any job some days you don’t feel like going to that either. I got my best writing done on the days I forced myself to write. Face my fear of dialogue and get over it. Once I did that I realized dialogue is fun! It brings your characters to life and gives them their Read more [...]