Welcome back for another installment of the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour. I hope you’ve been staying hydrated as you make the rounds (or, if you’re in the Southern Hemisphere, staying warm). This month I’m supposed to reflect on what I do best as it relates to writing.

I’ve been told I write some pretty compelling characters. My friend Stephen wants to date Hilda, one of my cyberterror fighting characters (I’m afraid to ask why, but I think it has something to do with her, ahem, interest in, um, unusual practices that are only hinted at in the story.) If you want to find Twilight-related posts, go here.) Then there’s the influence of my talking polar bear, Inuit. She had her own blog (I shut her down, but you can read the archives here) and her own (mostly inactive) Twitter account. One or two people have told me she can be captivating, and that’s before she uses her teeth or claws.

I hope I can write compelling characters. There’s nothing more satisfying to me than finishing a novel and wishing I could hang out with the characters and find out what happens next in their lives. If I were able to write characters people wanted to know more about, I’d be thrilled.

At this point, I still believe the thing I do best is write well technically. I can write a sentence and punctuate it correctly. Sadly, I’ve been able to do that since high school. Not sadly because I’ve been able to do that for so long, but sadly because perhaps I have not developed beyond that skill.

Today’s post is my response to this month’s topic for the Merry-Go-Round Blog Tour. Throughout the month, you can get to know twenty (or so) other writers from various genres and backgrounds and at various places in their careers.

Next stop on the tour is L.C. Aisling on September 20, 2012.