Feb 17, 2012 | The Writing Life
Happy Friday, Dear Readers! I have a confession. I suck at morning pages, for one simple reason. You’re supposed to write them in the morning, when you first wake up. I always plan to get up earlier. I also plan to go to bed before it’s the following...
Feb 16, 2012 | The Writing Life
A woman approached me at a Christmas party. I’d never met her before, but she told me she’d seen my byline in the Free Press, a paper I’d started writing for almost twenty years ago. Then she cut to the chase: “I’d like to freelance, too....
Feb 13, 2012 | The Writing Life
Hi everyone, I’m sorry that, once again, my posts on this blog have been sporadic. Originally, I started this blog for two reasons: to inspire me to write again, and to track my progress as I prepared to fight in the ring. I thought it might be interesting to...
Jan 23, 2012 | The Writing Life
One of the great things about writing a paranormal mystery is that I can justify researching ghosts. Reading about them, watching horror movies–it’s all good. I spent a lot of this weekend reading supposedly non-fiction accounts of hauntings–and...
Jan 20, 2012 | The Writing Life
Welcome back, Dear Readers. If you believe that there are no coincidences, you’ll love the fact that in a low moment at work, when my computer was down, I stumbled across a book by Julie Cameron in the Museum’s Unintentional Book Club (I’ll explain...
Jan 17, 2012 | The Life Less Ordinary, The Writing Life
Can’t have one without the other, right? The good news is that I finally feel like a writer again. After the Sparkling Werewolves (writers group extraordinaire) met last Thursday, my commitment was to finish going through The Boy’s edits of Dragonfly...
