writing
March 6, 2024
Here I am, once again apologizing for not blogging for a year, not sending out a newsletter for a year, not publishing a book for more than a year. Let’s say the past year has felt like I’m a character in one of my novels. Someone who is making “heroic” choices one messy moment at […]
September 19, 2019
7 minute read In July I read two articles that really challenged my perceptions of the creative writing business. It was like going from a mind-set that had two or three dimensions in black and white; suddenly realizing there are multiple colors and multiple dimensions and multiple ways to approach my writing career that I […]
August 19, 2019
Is Writer’s Block Real? I’ve been writing short stories and articles for nearly 40 years and novels for almost two decades. I’ve never experienced what people call “writer’s block.” However, there were many times when I found that I couldn’t write. Why did that happen? I suggest that there are three possible sources of this […]
December 3, 2017
I’m off to the coast for the week for one of my quarterly writing retreats. This is a time where I go away and concentrate only on writing. I think, live, breathe writing all day for 6 days. I even dream writing. :) I do this because this time allows me to have no responsibility […]
November 21, 2017
My good friend, Judith Ashley, asked me a couple months ago what inspired me to write my author guides. My response wasn’t a quick answer and had no pithy one-liner that captured my journey . She suggested I might want to put it into a blog post. I thought it would be a good post […]
November 18, 2017
I always remember that Shakespeare quote from Romeo and Juliet: “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” That may be true. In my case, I’ve had three names for books. They are all me, so I hope they smell as sweet. However, it is time to just have one name. I’ve decided […]
