DeeBeeCreative's Blog – July 2025 Archive (3)

Right now, everything on TV is either reruns or ‘reality’, which I don’t like at all. So I decided to find something else to watch. That should be easy, since I have a huge library of tv shows and movies on DVD. I started out using VHS, then I copied my favorites onto DVDs.

I recently came across a music…

I love the movie Forbidden Planet! It's my all-time favorite SF movie. In the film, one of the main characters was named Altaira--after the planet, Altair 4. I couldn't get that name out of my head! So when I started writing, I decided to make that the name of the planet in my futuristic romance--but with my spelling: Altara.  That was around 1970.  Much later, when I discovered the internet, I decided that would be a good Username.  I used that before I was confident enough to use my actual…

I've been writing since I was a teenager in high school. It's just "me", who I am. After high school, I started at the local junior college, and if I hadn't dropped out after getting married, I would have been an English Major.  By then, I knew what I wanted to do with my life: have a family and keep writing.   I would normally write 20 pages per day after I was married--being a stay-at-home mom. I had put it aside when I had my first baby. Then I realized he slept a…