Feb 25, 2011 | The Writing Life
Happy Friday, Dear Readers. I’ve lost a lot of things in my life. Wonderful friends have moved away and lost touch, and not-so-wonderful friends have drifted for other reasons. Beloved relatives and a close friend from childhood have passed away. I’ve lost...
Feb 15, 2011 | The Writing Life
Good morning, dear readers. It’s common knowledge that blogs are supposed to provide useful, practical tips on how to do stuff. And if there’s any “stuff” I know how to do, it’s write novels. I recently finished my fifth full-length book,...
Feb 7, 2011 | The Writing Life
Happy Monday, Dear Readers! I certainly hope this week is better than the last. As I begin another rewrite of Dragonfly Summer (hopefully today), it seems an appropriate time to enter a little writing contest. Fellow author Brenda Drake is hosting a Dark and Stormy...
Feb 4, 2011 | The Writing Life
Happy Friday, Dear Readers, It’s February, which means Valentine’s Day is soon to come and spring is hopefully in the air. How could there be a better time to write about love? You can write about love in any of its forms today–if you’ve tried...
Feb 3, 2011 | The Writing Life
Okay. I admit it. I’ve been slacking off. I don’t know what it is about January that makes me so darn tired, but with no tropical vacation on the horizon this year, I just want to crawl back in bed until winter’s over. Instead of working on a new...
Feb 1, 2011 | The Life Less Ordinary, The Writing Life
Hello Dear Readers, When I first got into writing seriously again, it couldn’t escape my notice that, for a woman who had “no time”, I was certainly frittering plenty of it away. So I began to ask myself one question before each time-killer. How will...
