Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: I’m sick. Not Coronavirus type sick, but it’s kicking my ass none-the-less. Thing #2: I even took two days off writing, because I didn’t have the energy – and that’s ok. Thing #3: I …
As a writer – as a creative of any kind really, but I’m speaking from a writer’s perspective – there is a lot of pressure on you to produce. Some of it is external. I hear now-a-days that one book a year is starting to be not enough. In my opinion, that kind of pace …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Sometimes the best thing that you can do for yourself is to stop and take a break from everything. Thing #2: Hand in hand with Thing #1 is the agreement (Hand in hand – …
If you’ve been following the blog for a while (and if you’ve been following the blog for a while – thanks!) you’ll know that, with every new project I try to include something new. Something I’ve never done before. This last book, I worked in a bit of romance and found that I enjoyed that. …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: So far, I haven’t heard anything from the Three Things I’m waiting to hear back from. Sometimes the waiting in the hardest part. Thing #2: To keep myself distracted, I’m continuing work on Queen’s …
So… Maybe this post should have gone live two days ago, but I don’t post on Fridays anymore. More importantly – and hear me out on this – maybe it’s appropriate regardless of what day it is. I think that personal relationships, including – and perhaps especially – romantic relationships are not only good for …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: This week, I submitted my application for the Taos Toolbox writer’s workshop. I should hear back from them in a couple of months. If you’d cross what you’ve got for me, I’d take it …
I have a confession to make: Lately, I’ve been struggling with a couple of scenes, and it’s taken me longer than I would have liked to get through them. Further confession: I’m still not completely through one of them. The first scene took just over a week before I reached the point where I didn’t …
Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Keep doing what you’re doing. There will always be someone who has written more than you have on any given day. Someone who’s gotten up earlier. Someone who appears to have done more. Don’t …
There will come a time where you sit down to do “The Thing” and nothing comes. You may be experiencing something like that right now. Well, maybe not right, right now because you’re reading this, but you now what I mean. You’re all set to do what it is you do and…nothing doing. I’ve experienced …