Today’s guest blogger is Bob van Laerhoven. Bob is sharing with us a ‘conversation’ he had while riding his horse, Archimeda. Ideas for stories, even what types of stories we like to write, can appear from out nowhere or in Bob’s case while out riding. – Listen, Master, listen… – Archimeda, for the thousand time, don’t…
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Wednesday Writing Prompts-Tee Time
Continuing with the theme of hobbies. This week’s one is golf. Your character might be heading out to the course for the first time. They might even be buying their first set of golf clubs. Perhaps they’re taking golf lessons. What happens? Do they discover a hobby that they love? One that frustrates them?…
The Books of Summer 2018
Here are the twelve books I’ve picked for my summer reading 2018. A full disclosure here… I recently signed up to be an Amazon Associate so I’ve included links to each book and should you buy one I’ll get an affiliate fee. To The Bridge by Nancy Rommelmann This year I’ve decided to…
Monday Motivation-Change Where You’re At
Whether you’re a writer, artist, musician…whatever, we all get into a rut. A place in our heads (and sometimes our hearts), where we feel there’s nothing more creatively we can give. We burn out and the muse goes bye-bye. It’s happened to me lots of times and one thing I’ve found that helps is…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Finally Caught Up With Back Titles
The first Ramblings of the summer. I’m happy to say that I’ve finally caught up with all my back titles. I re-released the last of the batch yesterday. The next title I get rights back to is in October which gives me some breathing space and a chance to work on my mystery. Here’s a…
Readers First, Writers Second
It’s the first day of summer and I’ve already read the first book on this year’s books of summer. Many of you know I set aside twelve books each summer to read while the days are long and hot. I’ll reveal this year’s dozen very soon but the focus of this post is all…
Wednesday Writing Prompts-Hobbies Week One-Photography
I thought we’d try something a little different for writing prompts. An overall theme and stories that fit into them. First theme hobbies. Each week your character will tackle a new hobby. This week it’s photography- Has your character been given a new camera? Maybe one’s been sitting in their closet and they’re finally…
Keep On Writing
I’ve been sorting through some of my old files and I came across this short article I wrote for, well, I can’t remember because it’s been that long. Best thing is it’s still relevant and fits in with the summer writing challenge so here it is… Raise your hand if you’ve begun writing a book. Now…
Monday Motivation-Vision Boards
Once upon a time I was a girl who wanted nothing more than to be a published author. The rejections letter kept on coming so I worked harder but still I didn’t realize my dream. I think sheer determination, and maybe even some arrogance, got finally got me there but I had one other thing…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Multi-Tasking
An earlier than normal Friday Ramblings. The work week isn’t over just yet but I’m going to take a few hours off to watch a World Cup soccer game. After that, it’s back to work. Thank you to this week’s guest blogger. I finally got another back title revamped and published. When I say back…