I can’t write in quiet. I just can’t. I have to have background noise. Music, to be more precise. But words distract me. (My brain tends to focus on the words already written rather than the ones I need to write.) So I need …
Trying to Make a Good Thing
I thought this book, which will be my third published novel, would go much like the last two. Write a draft, do a couple of extensive revisions in light of my critique partners’ and my editor’s comments, then mark it …
The Work of a Writer
I’ve been fighting with the first draft of a new manuscript. And I think it’s winning. Yes, I wrote all through November, but finishing in December has been hard— partly because in December I just want to play, and …
Novel Morsels — .99 on Kindle!
Starting today and through this weekend (I believe), the cookbook Novel Morsels is available as a .99 kindle download! This version does not have all the color photos of authors and book covers, BUT there is a code at the …
Report from the Writing Cave
Just thought I'd give you a quick update from the writing cave. I'm 30,000 words into the new story, set in central Pennsylvania and revolving around a Home for Orphan and Friendless Children in 1910. Yippee!That's the good …
Novel Morsels
Ever wonder what your favorite novelists (or their characters) are cooking up for dinner? Thanks to my friend and fellow novelist, Nicole O’Dell, you can find out!Introducing Novel Morsels, an e-cookbook! (Do …
Write a Novel in a Month
Long, long ago in a life that now seems far, far away, a friend I’d met in an online writing class convinced me to join her in the NaNoWriMo challenge. If you aren’t a writer, you might be scratching your head. NaNoWriMo is …
A George Bailey Moment
Every year I watch It’s a Wonderful Life at Christmastime. And every year I cry (read: bawl like a baby) at the end, when George Bailey realizes how many friends he has and how much his friends and family care about …
Stuck
Do you ever get stuck? I’m in that place right now. I guess you might have noticed I didn’t post on Wednesday. It wasn’t that I didn’t have time to write something. In fact, I had a piece written and ready to go. And then I …
What Are You Trying to Teach Me, Lord?
In my mind, this was the week to settle back into my writing routine. I looked forward it. Planned for it. By Monday morning i was almost giddy in anticipation. Then, as often happens, life intervened. A sick child. …