Today I could say two words that would be an instant conversation starter among a group of people no matter what their age. The Bachelor. What a putz. The last night of this seasons show he chooses one of the two final women to be his bride then changes his mind. After what seemed a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
At the time of that story, I didn’t think about how what I listened to affected my writing.