Do you have an image in your mind of your mother or grandmother or some other loved one talking on the phone? Just how close is that image in your mind to the light that entered your eyes?

I’m just as interested in entertaining as I am in communicating, maybe more so. Entertain a lot, communicate something. As soon as you start writing, it becomes a fiction to some degree. Might as well make it entertaining.

Here’s a snippet from my novel, Your Silent Face, still in post production. When I wrote this passage, I had a certain photo of my mother in mind.