I’ve not been on Facebook for a while. The Twitterverse has occupied the majority of my (not so copious) free time when not writing. (Wow, I never thought I’d have to use 22 adjectives to break down my non-sleeping hours.) Suffice to say I have never gotten so much as a parking ticket in Zuckerberg’s […]
I am writing my first blog entry from my iPad. Why? Well, though I really hate typing on this thing (takes me back to the “hunt and peck” days with my first IBM Selectric—if you don’t know what that is, I’m not telling), it’s all I can muster. Suffice to say I am in bed, […]
My last couple of posts were a little heavy. Serious subject matter, and not a lot of advice to writers. So I plan to rectify both counts today. Not that what I am about to share is not serious—it is—but it’s not very deep. And it definitely qualifies as “advice”. Imagine your elation. Last week […]
Yep, Monday is my birthday. Not a significant one by any standards. 47. A little closer to 50 than last year, maybe. Well, not maybe. It is. But if you are reading this thinking oh great, someone else who loves to tout their birthday to the world, I forgive you. To know me is to […]
I can’t be the only writer who feels this way. I believe in my work. I am my own worst critic, so it’s not like I lay around eating sugar sandwiches knowing the gravy train can only be a few minutes from the station. Okay, the part about sugar sandwiches, maybe—but I only eat them […]
With the school year starting all over the country, a cause near and dear to my heart is going to be picking up steam in about a month: Benefit 4 Ben. Some good friends of ours have a son, Ben, who has benefitted so much from a wonderful place called The Joshua School. TJS is […]
I recently blogged on passive voice and using too many clichés. A responder on Twitter wrote that, while what I said was true, it is entertainment and exposure that make bestsellers in the fiction genre. This response, while not all that uncommon, really got me to thinking. I believe there are few misconceptions in what […]
Since I am a writer, and I am deep in the middle of my second book, Dark Prairies—and particularly since I feel like it is really starting to get some legs—I figured it was time to blog about it. To myself (this blog is so new, or so bad, that I still have only myself […]
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