This past week I worked on a Twitter pitch for #mswl on February 8, 2017. I’m not sure if it is the right thing to do, but I posted it. It’s so difficult to determine what to do and not do when it comes to these things. Oh well, if nothing else, I can go…
I decided, for this year, to pull my mid-grade Fantasy into a book. I’ve already told you that it was my second attempt at NaNoWriMo. I used it for a couple of years to give readers something to read, if they happened on my website. I don’t know if it ever tempted anyone to return. I…
This Thanksgiving I want to take the time to stop and share things I am grateful for. Not the least of these is that I can put a preposition at the end of a sentence. Another is for the acronym, lol. Seriously, I have so much that I appreciate in my life. Of course I…
This year for NaNoWriMo I’m going to work on book 4 of my series. At this time the working title is “The Answer Is In The Stars”. My characters haven’t shared with me yet what the story is about. I know the threat from the previous book has expanded. Tomorrow I’ll get to know the…
Lately it has been more difficult to get time for my writing. I have been making more family time. That comes in the form of walking later at night. The city where I live is beautiful and well lit, so walking late is not a scary thing. This is especially true with my two nephews….
I finally got my book to the place it needed to be for the current submission. There has been a lot of polishing since I started sending it off. Strange, but some people have an instinct that their book is good. This is my best effort so far, but is it good enough? There have…
Today is the first day in the rest of my life. An old saying, but I’m approaching the day and this weekend with this as my main determination. I’ve been working on my first book, “Not Too Late Forever”, since 2006. During this time I’ve learned so much about writing. It’s amazing how intricate the…
February 7, 2016 My exciting life continues. Last week I was lucky enough to accompany a group of my co-workers to the local Chamber of Commerce Awards Banquet. The Chamber is an organization I support whole wholeheartedly. Each Wednesday morning a group that now consists of close to 100, meets and shares information about their…
Once more the word of the week is two words: Prove It. They inspire me to prove the quality of my writing. This past week I had a recommendation of how to change my book to make it more “saleable”. It may be a good recommendation, but it wouldn’t be the story I want to…
Success is defined by my mobile app as “the favorable outcome to an endeavor”. This week I am working diligently to find this success while living a full life. I have always felt it is the journey that counts. I continue to participate in my community, enjoy family and make time for friends, as I fit my…
Today I choose to work on my stamina. This is the power to endure. I have endured with the writing of my first book since 2006. I will always have the stamina to write. I hope this stamina will soon carry me past the publishing of my first book to working on my second.
Right now is the only time in our lives that we have any control over. Yesterday is gone, and tomorrow is a wish. This moment is all we have to make the right decisions. Oh, now it’s gone too. Don’t delay, make the right choices for you right now.
When I started writing my first book in 2006, I had no idea the work that would go into it. As with many first time writers, I though it would be easy. After all I am a reader and the words just flow from the page. Since then I have discovered, at least for myself,…
I have much going on in my life right now. With the commitment to write a 2000 word chapter of an historical fiction every two weeks added to writing and editing on my other two stories, I am staying quite busy. It is interesting to fit this in around my day job and my community…
I am so lucky to have the life I have, and live where I live. This weekend I will pause and thank people I have never met for the freedoms I enjoy. That I can get angry at my government and say out loud that I disagree with those who profess to lead and govern…
05/16/2015 I made it to Saturday, the end of this week. I looked back over the work I have done on Josephine’s story. I had forgotten how much I have put in to it and how much I have written. So now I am working on the beginning of the book. Strange, a different genre…
It’s been quite a week. Last Sunday I spent the whole curled up on the couch. I stayed there, pretty much for the next two days. as well Here in Southern Oregon, we have the flu going around, through the schools and elsewhere. Sadly, I found it. This helped put me behind on my editing and…
It’s almost time for the conference to wrap up. Again it has been an incredible experience. I intend to add to this, but for now, I’ll talk about an experience from yesterday. I had my craftlab with Alan Clark. It was fabulous. I have started working on the suggestion. I have no doubt about the dimension that will be…
Keynote speaker Gail Tsukiyama kicks off the Conference at 9:00 a.m. I still haven’t decided which workshop I’ll start with. One, with Alan Clark, is enticing. The title “What Were They Thinking? The Drama Available in History.” makes me thing of the book I’m working on about Virginia Josephine Rollins Ort. I’ll report more back…
This last Sunday I was faced with a question about my writing. I was told I needed to rewrite my book, to make it more one thing or another. The question I need to ask myself is why do I write. I understand this is a dilemma for many writers. So why do I write?…
Today is the last day of NaNoWriMo. Tomorrow I will go back to the edit of Book one in the Naldo series. There is one more write-in today so I will work on a scene, and if I have time start with what will be the closing one. There much more work than that tod…
A new month, and another realization. I have really been neglecting my webpage. There was one particular spam post that brought this to my attention. So one more challenge each week. I will post something new, no matter how small to my webpage. This is a busy month. Even though I will not be going…