So I’m in Nashville, staying at my usual spot in East Nashville, house-sitting for Sue and Walt, who, along with half the other population of the south, are at the Key West Literary Seminar. And, by the way, I am writing this post on Sue’s Mac and it is a whole different world, a world […]
Yes, I know it is lame when someone writes a post with enticing links and then they don’t work. What can I tell you? I am hopeless when it comes to tech stuff.
Here’s what is going on: I finally joined the rest of the world and got the Mozilla Firefox browser. (I don’t even know which one is the standard nickname.) Which I love. But apparently it has odd issues with Typepad, because when I create links they evaporate. Just evaporate. Into thin air. It is very strange.
Then I went back and attempted to re-set the links using IE, which didn’t work either, for some strange reason. So my apologies. I actually seem to have the linking function working through IE, so I am now going to go back, once again, and see if I can’t get the links going. Fingers crossed.
Meanwhile, stay tuned. I have a two-part series on writing and publishing erotic romance coming up this week. Friday I head to Nashville, y’all, and Candace’s husband Keith is making me coconut cake. I want to bring him back to Portland with me but I don’t think she will let me. But with luck I will have photos for you next week.
I know you are way more interested in photos of coconut cake than tips on writing.
My friend Linda sent me the link to this video. Enjoy! Here is the actual link in case the embedding isn’t working: Writer’s Montage.
I was reading my friend Deidre’s blog, and she has posted all the things she is going to do in 2008, and I am thus inspired to write my own list. Last night on New Year’s Eve, I posted all the goals I had for my blog. Since this is supposed to be a […]
I posted this under the category of food and drink because that seems appropriate for New Year’s Eve, don’t you think? And even though it is nearly 8 PM and I sitting at my computer writing a blog post, that does not mean I am lame and have no plans for New Year’s Eve. No, […]
Back when I was a blog reader but not yet a blog writer I’d read people’s blogs and inevitably come upon the "sorry I haven’t posted for so long, but I’ve been ___________" (you can fill in the blank with sick, away, busy, whatever). For some reason, I always hated those posts because they were […]
Common wisdom has always been that the city I live in, Portland, Oregon is a haven for writers. We have Powell’s after all, and for those of you who are only familiar with it online, the brick-and-mortar store is, and I’m not kidding, a whole city block full of books. Many people blame it on […]
Be Zen. Wherever you go, there you are. If Pug (and it is so funny to me that people routinely refer to their pugs as Pug or The Pug, when we don’t, say, call golden retrievers The Golden or The Retriever) is sleeping, he is sleeping. If he is sitting with the family, he is […]
I’ve written about how important it is to sometimes ignore all the rules in writing. This morning I thought about that again as I realized that many times it is appropriate to tell, rather than show. I know, I know, you’ve all heard a million times to show, not tell. And most of the time […]
I got up and worked on my new novel this morning (the one I didn’t write for Nanowrimo). And all is right with the world because of it. I’ve been very careful and fussy with this novel so far. This morning I let it rip. For whatever reason, and I have some theories, I was […]
