I announced a couple of days ago that I’m finally done (after nearly five years) with my writing Work-In-Progress. My WIP, as I affectionately called it, can’t even go by that name any more. What should I call it now? FIP? As in Finished Project? Even though I say it’s finished, I can’t seem to … More When it’s hard to let go of the writing…and Jim Thorpe
When the writing is done and the courage is found to send a query letter to a publisher … More Where the Writing Rubber Meets the Road
My last blog was about citing as you write. And I’ve spent the last couple of weeks paying the piper, so to speak, for failure to do so. I’m writing a book on local history, based on part of my family that lived in Northeastern Pennsylvania. As I’m researching about the people and area, I’m … More The mysterious synergy of the writing life
This morning I made the banner above to set as my desktop background. That’s because I didn’t do what it says, although I’d read over and over again about what good practice it is, what a good idea it is. As a person who’s mostly dabbled in fiction, however, I never thought too much about … More Cite as You Write!
I’m back in the saddle, back to writing this week. At last–it feels really good. As I looked over my most recent post here, I see that it was in July. I’ll admit that I haven’t written a single thing since then, until this week. The “why” is simple: my hubby got a job offer … More NanoWrimo, nano nah
So, here we are in July, the summertime month for NaNoWriMo. Camp NaNoWriMo, to be exact. I had a good start to the month, then almost immediately fell off the writing wagon because the 4th of July was on a Tuesday, which created a natural 4-day holiday weekend, which was spent by the hubster and I … More Writing toward the NaNoWriMo word count
It’s about 20 minutes to midnight on June 30th, 2017–less than a half hour until the official start of Camp NaNoWriMo, and here I am frantically trying to make sense and order of all my scribbled notes and computer files related to this novel idea of mine. I’d had this great plan of having a … More Burning the midnight NaNoWriMo oil…
I just signed up for Camp NaNoWriMo, the summertime version of NaNoWriMo (which occurs every November). NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) is self-inflicted torture for writers. Its premise is simple and yet Herculean–write a 50,000 word novel, start to finish, in one month. I created my NaNoWriMo account years ago, and a couple of those years I actually … More Camp NaNoWriMo
Quick update related to my last post written in November–that first contract on our house fell through, but we eventually accepted another one and settled in April. We’re now renting a little vacay place owned by the hubster’s parents, for which I offered implementation of my newly acquired reno skills. I was startled by how eagerly the in-laws accepted … More Getting lost in the (research) weeds
I haven’t written in months. Or created any illustrations. But not because I haven’t wanted to. I’ve been renovating our house–we decided in June that we wanted to sell our house, with a long-term plan to move back closer to family. So I’ve spent all day, every day for months painting, cleaning and renovating. It took me until this … More Looking toward the new year…
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