Welcome, everyone to another installment of Five Thing Thursday and… Here are Five Things I want you to Know: Thing #1: Try – and I don’t say this lightly as I’m self-aware enough to know that this’ll take some effort – and unplug one day this next week. Thing #2: Earlier this week, I have …
I’ve been sick. So much so, that I’ve been off the day-job for the majority of the week. I’m feeling better, but I’d like to take a look at this past week and maybe dispel a myth or two. If you’re like me, you’re juggling other stuff in addition to writing. There’s the day-job, family, …
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 …