There’s glitter on my laptop keys. Hmm. Wonder how that happened.
I’m knee-deep in the fleshing out of my latest humorous women’s fiction piece, tentatively entitled “Gemma.” I’m really digging where the story is going. The book idea came from a great opening scene that I’ve had forever, it just took a couple of years for [...]
Coffee and candy and soda pop fizzes theses are a few of my favorite things…
Since my post falls on Christmas, I’ve decided a little fluff is in order. I know, what’s new? This month is just going to be a little more like cotton candy than cotton balls and I promise to keep it short [...]
Since many of my writing mates wrote about Nano, I’m going to get in on the action, too. But from a different perspective. I’m going to write about the unexpected things I got from Nano. Hint: it wasn’t 50,000 words. Not this year.
The first thing I got was the knowledge that I have [...]
Maybe you’re not into forcing yourself to put 50,000 words on the page or you’re a firm believer that writing is a solitary job so no group endeavors, like those write-in thingies.
Does your writerly brain stay ‘on’ when you travel?
Last month I was lucky enough to spend 5 days in San Francisco. Being a “native” Californian, of course I’d been to SF before, but it has been a while, so I took everything in with new eyes… and I noticed my writer’s brain was engaged. It’s [...]
At the time of that story, I didn’t think about how what I listened to affected my writing.
