New Directions

After a lot of soul searching, I decided to take this blog of mine that I enthusiastically started right after I retired and then lay bare for 10 years! Not that I’ve been idle in all that time! I started crafting again. I started teaching again and I started writing again.

I discovered a western tv show on tv and when researching the topics discovered what to me was a little known genre called fan fiction. First of all no one makes any money. We writers.just “revise” the show a bit, delved into the minds and hearts of the characters and maybe change situations and or characters.

The tv show I now write for is called.Laramie. The fictional characters Jess Harper (actor Robert Fuller) and Slim Sherman ( John Smith) run a ranch and relay station for the Overland Stage Express. The time frame is 1870-1875 in Laramie, Wyoming. The cast of characters changes with each episode but the core was during season 1 (Jess, Slim, Andy (Slim’s younger brother) and Jonesy (foreman). Season 2 was just Jess and Slim with assorted characters and season 3-4 was the core plus Mrs. Daisy Cooper.(housepeeper) and Mike Williams ( boy they adopted).

One day after watching the latest episode, an idea for a story popped into my head. Now, understand when I write this, I hadn’t written any stories since college and was very nervous. I fortunately found a knowledgeable Beta and began. I’ve never looked back.

After 30+ stories, all with the overlying theme of brotherly love ( not slash) and family love, I can say it’s been a journey of discovery. While I don’t garner reviews in the hundreds, I do.have a following. But the most important thing to me is that people read and are transported to a simpler time when hometown values mattered.

Each week I will publish a new story on this site. Please read and review!

Thanks for your support!

Sallie