Ever wonder how prenatal vitamins actually affect the unborn? While I’m not one to entertain many conspiracies in life, it’s good to have a curious mind that asks such weird questions when it comes to being a writer.

Something as simple as a question like that could easily lead to a great premise for a mystery or suspense novel. Man, why do I give away so many gems on my blog for free? Other people writer faster than I do; maybe I need to start keeping my yap shut!

As a writer, it’s always important to pick up knowledge where you can find it.

I once had a roommate who had the worst case of dry skin ever (or so it seemed) and he was constantly in search of a better eczema treatment. At the time, it grossed me out; but now, I have enough knowledge that if I want to give a character a unique quirk, I know enough about this condition to write about it.

Strange how many things that you don’t consider important at the time come around to being useful later on. Especially true for writers.

Being a writer gives one a unique perspective on topics as mundane as quick trim celluslim reviews to as exotic as the effects of poisons on the human body. With suspense/mystery writers, all of it usually adds up to figuring out how to effectively kill someone in a way that will mislead the reader to the wrong suspects, right up until the moment the real killer is revealed and suddenly it all makes sense.

The difference, really, is that you get fewer strange, suspicious looks when asking about diet plans than when one asks about poisons. Which, I guess, makes sense.

When I’m not surfing to places like http://www.bestonlinedegrees.org to help my wife consider the best place to get her next degree … that’s right, she just finished her bachelors! Go, Andie! Anyway…

I’ve discovered just how important good research is to everything from sermons to novel-writing. One needs to deeply understand all that is possibly relevant, whether crafting a compelling storyline in a novel or an enlightening teaching as part of a sermon. Either way, good research skills are essential.

I’m going to have a tight writing schedule for the next few weeks; I have one more sermon and one more commentary ahead of me, back to back. However, after that, I have no idea when I’ll be teaching again.

So, I should finally find some serious novel-writing time right about then. That’s news so good even colonix can’t improve it. After all, there are only so many hours in the day and eventually you run out of waking hours.

OK, so I’ve learned not to over-rely on hard drives; my big mistake last Friday was that I’ve come to over-rely on my flash drive. It went down suddenly after Windows 7 offered to “scan and fix” it. It scanned my drive, all right, but there was no “fix” to it. Windows 7 killed my flash drive!

And of course, I lost several sermons and commentaries, as well as any progress I’d made on my novel since the last time I backed up to my PC hard drive… back in October. Ugh!

Well, at least I didn’t lose it completely, or have my hard drive go down at the same time as my flash drive this time. That’d age me enough to need to look into the best wrinkle treatment around.