So, I’m four scenes away from finishing the most terrible Shitty First Draft ever, in the history of man, written. I started this novel on a sunny afternoon in Collioure last September when I got a sudden inspiration. I’ve been working steadily on it since then, taking pretty much the whole months of December and […]
Another Friday rolls around and here’s a look at the week… What I’m Learning: More is more. Of course, some might say this has been my motto all my life. Sigh. But what I mean is that sometimes it is easier to do more than less. Like more writing. I know, I hear you groaning. […]
Back in my early writing days, genre was a dirty word. “Oh, she writes genre romances,” someone would sniff. Or, “Well, you know, it’s just a genre mystery.” My, how things have changed. Though not everyone apparently approves or even wants to admit it, the lines between genres (or more to the point, between genre […]
No snappy titles today, but I’ve got lots of great writing links for you. So let’s get right to it. Are you trying to ride the news cycle with your current novel? Might not be the best idea. I gotta admit, sometimes I wonder about this: is writing fiction a worthy endeavor? What is your […]
Happy leap day! Are you leaping about, as I’ve seen so many people doing on Instagram? (We humans are nothing if not predictable.) Or perhaps you are still recovering from the looooong Academy Awards show last night? I’m actually doing neither. Instead I’m sitting by the TV set, which is tuned to Doc McStuffins, with […]
Hey, its February! How about that? January went by in a blink, it seems to me I was just in Nashville. I have it on good authority that this month is going to be a good one, full of new ideas and energy. But first, let’s wrap up January with a look at some of […]
Forgive me, father for I have sinned am sinning. I am committing one of the cardinal writing sins. I am three-quarters of the way through the first draft of my next novel, and rather than writing all the way to the end, I am starting over. I hear your gasps. I see your open mouths. […]
First of all, can you believe it is the middle of January already? Geesh, time flies. I guess being out of town the first week of the month made it fly all the faster. By the way, my wise meditation teacher has a theory on why we think that time goes faster as we age: […]
I’ve got a bushel full of links for you today, many of them Christmas-related, because, in case you hadn’t noticed, the big day is only five days away. Awk! Excuse me while I go wrap some presents. No, instead I’ll do what I always do when I’m feeling overwhelmed: fart around on the internet. Here […]
Took awhile for it to register that it is actually Friday the 13th. I always choose to think of it as lucky day, but today has been anything but. The attacks in Paris destroy me and now there’s been an earthquake off the coast of Japan. But I guess the rest of us have to […]
