I've been writing on a new novel for a week now, and I'm struggling to STOP for a minute and just relax.  Ever create characters that are so unpredictible you can't WAIT to see what they are going to do next?  I have some pure-D FOOLS working on my last nerve!!  As in my last novel, I'll probably finish it in a short span of time, because these FOOLS won't let me be!!!

I hope I don't raise offensives with this post, but I notice that most of the members here are white and as an inquisitive African-American am always wondering what some views of present events might be amongst you, of things that I look at through not only my colorful prism, but with the imaginative mind of a fiction writer.  Not saying that our prisms differ much in the human perspective, but merely that I'm certain my life experiences are quite varied, coming up in serious poverty and in …

Just how "recent" is recent history, and what events do we consider to be of an historic nature?  Is it whether or not they'll be remembered annually one-hundred years from now?  Or even ten years down the road?

I pose this question because over in Facebook, the WAENetwork presence asked me if I might blog here about the people whom I've interviewed as a "cub reporter" back in the 70s and '80s who inspired me to become a writer.  I worked for the Washington Afro-American newspaper,…