My son got married on Saturday. As I've written about quite a bit this summer, this was our second wedding, since my daughter had a rather large renewal ceremony in June. It was the hottest day of the year (98 degrees), and an outside wedding. But despite that, it was a gorgeous evening and a […]
My baby boy (6'2", over 200 pounds) is getting married tomorrow. We are fully in the midst of festivities surrounding the nuptials–dinner for 16 here last night, ladies lunch yesterday afternoon, manis and pedis today followed by the rehearsal and the rehearsal dinner…you get the picture. Which is why this blog post will be brief. […]
So, you're writing the great american novel. Or memoir. Or screenplay. You know it, but the world doesn't quite yet. So somehow you have to support yourself while you finish it. What to do? Two schools of thought: 1. The best way to support yourself while writing is to take a job completely and totally […]
Because I'm in the midst of the busiest time of my life, ever, I've actually been setting the alarm and dragging myself out of bed at 6 AM in order to make sure everything gets done. I work at home and can set my own schedule, so most days I allow myself to sleep until […]
I dunno. Sometimes, phrases just pop into my head. I think this is a writer thing, but it may happen to everyone, even civilians. The bad phrases pop in and pop back out again, but the good phrases hang around and bother me untile I do something with them. Last week sometime, the things that […]
As I work on my novel rewrite, I keep trying to find the writing schedule that works best for me. To my mind, there are two main ways to fit working on a big writing project into your life: 1. Make time every day. Get up early, stay up late, write during your lunch hour, […]
It's hot. It's summer. The living is easy and all that. Who wants to work? Who wants to think? Who wants to write? Isn't it ever so much better to take a vacation, to relax, lie on the beach, doze, tan…languish. But there are things to be done, words to be written! Ah, to hell […]
On Sunday, I officiated at a wedding. This is a wee sideline to my writing career that developed a few years ago when friends asked me to get ordained so that I could officiate at their wedding. One thing led to another–I think they call it word of mouth–and since then I think I've done […]
A friend who is raising small children and also attempting to write a novel emailed me and asked for help. Well not help, really, but inspiration. She is feeling overwhelmed and can't get to her writing. Besides telling her that this, too, shall pass, because it will, faster than anybody can ever imagine, I have […]
Yesterday, while procrastinating before getting to work making sure I stay informed on what's going on in the world, I ran across the story of a woman who recently died. Earlier this spring, she started getting odd pains in her legs, and on April 15th of this year she was diagnosed with cancer and told […]
