by Christopher Mirabile | Feb 24, 2026 | Writing Process & Behind the Scenes
The Scene Excerpt: The Washashore, Chapter 37 When they’d crossed the low bridge over the salt marsh, the remaining traces of dawn fog drifted between the reeds and out over the marsh’s main channel. It filtered the gathering light and nearly obscured the doe crossing...
by Christopher Mirabile | Jan 24, 2026 | Writing Process & Behind the Scenes
The Writing I Did Before Chapter One // Before I typed a single line of the first chapter of The Washashore, I wrote all twenty-three scenes featuring Wren and Silas. Not an outline. Not notes. The actual scenes—drafted, revised, and polished—before I touched anything...
by Christopher Mirabile | Dec 17, 2025 | Writing Process & Behind the Scenes
Where did I get the idea for my main character Silas Lopez, a former-ranch-hand-turned-police-chief who ends up on the outermost tip of Cape Cod? Well, this man of few words was born of my experiences and daydreams during thousands of miles spent exploring and camping...
