A.R. Grosjean

 I'm still learning how to do this, but now I can make my letters glow. It will help when I'm creating the effect. At least in the font. Now if I can learn how to do this with images lol. When you're creating your own covers it helps to know what you're doing. YouTube can get you part of the way. Practice can help. I just can't give up on this. And you shouldn't either. Keep watching how-to videos and ask around. Finding people with the same programs as you who has the time to show you step-by-step is beneficial. Plus you can gain new friendships. Keep learning! This is how I created this. 1. Open a blank window. I used a black background. 2. Created a new layer. 3. I typed my name with white letters using Italiana font. 4. Created a new layer. 5. Typed the name again and made sure they were lined up as perfect as I could get them. 6. On the top layer, I opened effects and chose 3D Effects, then chose cutout. A window popped up. I used white. 7. I went to the fi...

  Detective James has a murder mystery to solve. When a witness comes forward, revealing the murderer, he must make a choice. Turn the murderer in or run from the law. What will he do? Can he handle the truth or will the truth destroy him and his career? This will be my first detective story. I used to love watching this type of TV show growing up. I would try to solve the case before the detectives did. And it was so much fun. Now I get to write the story. This is one that's been with me for a while. It's on the list to be written next year and I can hardly wait to get to it! I can't tell you how I came up with this idea without revealing a secret in the story so I won't share that tidbit lol. When creating the cover for the book, I searched Amazon's best-sellers list and found these two covers to use for inspiration. I really liked the one on the left so that was the one I focused on. It's not an exact match, but I think it works rather well. I've already ...

  Are you planning on writing a book? Don't want to forget something? Make a checklist and cross things off as you finish them. When you're finished writing the book, everything should be crossed off the list. Here are some ideas to get you started. Feel free to add to the list..... Ask yourself...."Will I outline or wing it?" If you're going to outline it, make sure you include all the details you can think of. You can always go back and add more as the details come to you. What is the story about? The idea of the story. Some people start with the plot, some people start with the character. You need both but it doesn't matter which comes first. The story's theme. Setting Use active voice (this can be used for the editing process) What are the repetitive words? Can they be omitted or is another word better? (Use during editing). Characters. You can make a new checklist for that. Create a character bio sheet (there are many online to choose from or create y...

I was 11 years old when the idea of writing a story popped into my head and I wasn't even trying to come up with a story. Here's how it began........ I lived in Monroe, Indiana on a small farm that was own by my maternal grandparents. At the time, my uncle lived in North Webster. It was in the summer. My grandparents, little sister, and I took the drive up to North Webster to visit my uncle. My sister and I knew it would be a long trip because my grandfather drove slowly and he enjoyed the scenic routes, so we took a lot of paper and coloring pens and pencils to draw with during the trip. On the way home, I was staring at the clouds thinking of something to draw when something else popped into my head instead--an idea of a story. The story was about a little boy named Norman who died and went to the wrong part of Heaven. He was being chased by some bad guys during his journey to reach the right part of Heaven. Thinking back to that day, I have no idea why I thought there would ...