Video I Love: A Hero’s Threat

My hon and I just finished re-watching Leverage. If you’ve never seen the show, it’s a pretty good one. Not always 100% plausible, but I love the character dynamics, and it has one of my favorite series endings. I can just imagine the three of them (Parker, Hardison, and Eliot) out there working and living together. Of course, in my mind they are all in a relationship. The three of them had such fantastic chemistry. I loved when things got emotional between Hardison and Eliot.

Here’s a great moment with Nate. It’s from an episode where they’re trying to stop a man who is attempting to steal a heart from a 15 year old kid who’s next in line on the transplant list. The kid can’t wait for another heart. He’ll die if he doesn’t get this one.

Gotta love a man who stands up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

If you can’t see the embedded video, you can view on YouTube.

Quote I Love: What stirs your respect

On writing characters…

“It does not matter whether your intent is to portray someone real or someone heroic. To make either type matter to your readers, you need only find in your real human being what is strong, and in your strong human being what is real . . . How do you find the strong or human qualities in your protagonist? What will be most effective to portray? The answer to those lies in you, the author. What is forgivably human to you? What stirs your respect? That is where to start.”

Donald Maass, The Fire in Fiction

Jay’s bisexuality, the inspiration behind the story & other questions about Breathe

Jay Miller

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The fabulous Ethan Day has interviewed me about my Rainbow Award-winning book Breathe and the moment in my own life that led me to the story.

I adore Ethan and his writing, so to hear he enjoyed Breathe was quite a thrill. Thanks for the thoughtful questions and such kind remarks about this book, Ethan!

Read the interview at Ethan’s blog