10 Questions with Novelist Gerald Summers (@mobleymeadows)
This Author Spotlight features Temecula, California-based writer Gerald Summers. Gerald is a retired lawyer, a teacher, former police officer and probation officer, and an historian. 1.How did you get into writing? I’ve been writing all my life. I wrote reports as a police officer, probation officer, and as a lawyer. My specialty in law was in trial briefs, law and motion, and appellate work. I was once considered the best appellate writer in California and was once introduced as such by the Chief Justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in San Diego. 2.What do you like best (or least) about writing? The endorphins that are released during the process of creation. This compares to the stress hormones that are released when writing legal documents. 3.What is your writing process? IE do you outline? Do you stick to a daily word or page count, write 7 days a week, etc? I do not outline. I follow the W plot diagram in my head after deciding ...