One of the reasons we get anxious and overwhelmed is because we feel like so much hinges on any given decision. Guess what? It doesn’t. The truth of the matter is, we are each very tiny beings on a very tiny rock floating in space. Although our decisions might be Read more…
My friend A. M. Yates, a young adult author whose work I really like, recently created a personality quiz on Playbuzz.com for her new release. I took it and she told me the character I came up with was partially based on me! How about that for an accurate personality Read more…
While visiting my lovely girlfriend in California (and how it came to pass that I’m living on the East Coast with a girlfriend on the West is another story entirely, one you wouldn’t believe if I told you), I lost my sunscreening privileges after badly burning myself on a trip Read more…
[feature_box style=”7″ only_advanced=”There%20are%20no%20title%20options%20for%20the%20choosen%20style” alignment=”center”] This is a new part of my blog — I’m calling it Productivity for Writers. Each post will be geared for writers, rather than readers, and focus on how we writers can write more and better by improving both the quantity and quality of our productivity. Read more…
Hello, friends. How have you been? …Pretty good?… I’m glad! Oh — how have *I* been?? Well, funny you should ask, actually, because there’s a LOT going on in my life right now. While I suppose we are all busy all the time these days, last Sunday, I completed a Read more…
Hello everybody. I’m a bad girl. I’ve fallen behind on my writing schedule *and* my blogging schedule. Last week, I failed to post anything from my work in progress. But I’m trying to recapture some writing momentum, starting this week. That means I’m back in a writing groove again and Read more…
A lot of the people around me are bleeding right now. This new Trump-Pence administration our collective short-sightedness and apathy has created in the United States is already leading to a maelstrom of troubling consequences. I get Washington Post pop-ups on my computer, and besides the OH MY GOD PLEASE Read more…
Over the Christmas holidays, I traveled to my ancestral home of rural Missouri. And when I say rural, I mean really, really rural. I mean the roads are all still dirt, just like they have been for as long as anyone can remember, and I mean that your nearest neighbor Read more…
Hello, folks. This is the first bit of a recent post by Chuck Wendig, an author and a screenwriter whose blog I follow (and you should, too). I’m reposting a chunk of one of his posts here because it’s both funny and true and because you should read it. You Read more…
I wouldn’t really say that I get writer’s block. I fully believe in Stephen King’s quote about how “Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.” I also believe that the best cure for not knowing what to write is to Read more…