Hard to believe that in two week’s time Christmas with be over and in three, it’s a brand new year. Have you thought about your writing goals for the year? I’m still working on mine. One thing I know is I’ll get back to some mystery writing and finish the two stories I started, well,…
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Ventures in Self Publishing
If you’ve been a regular follower of my Friday Ramblings you know that this year I wrote a cookbook and have just self-published it. I won’t say it was easy work but it’s satisfying knowing that you have total control over your book, and yes you take both the accolades and blame if something’s not…
Monday Writing Prompts-Googled
I always say writing ideas come from things happening around you. Today someone told me they did a Google search on me to see what type of books I write. For this short story your character gets bored at work and decides to Google one of their co-workers. What do they find? Lots of possibilities…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Cookbook is Launched
Welcome to December and the first rambling of the month. My cookbook was finally launched today. It’s already on sale on Amazon and hopefully will be popping up on more sites in the coming days and weeks. It was a long journey and cookbooks aren’t the easiest ones to write. However, having said that I’ll…
Five Things I Learned During NaWriNoMo
This year’s NaWriNoMo challenge is history. I took part for the second year and here are a few things I discovered about writing and also myself as a writer- Some Days Are Tough There were a few days where my fingers flew across the keys. Sometimes they found it hard to keep up with my…
Monday Writing Prompts-Cyber
Today’s Cyber Monday and that’s the focus of this Monday’s prompt. It could be about a character who goes online to shop or something else that happens in cyberspace on any given Monday. Have fun and happy writing.
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Black Friday
A very brief ramble on this Black Friday and the last one in November. Hard to believe that November’s almost over and so is NaWriNoMo. How did everyone do this year? Some days were a struggle but other days my fingers flew across the keyboards. I think you learn a lot about yourself as a…
Monday Writing Prompt-Travel Pals
For those in the US it’s the week of Thanksgiving which they say is one of the busiest for travel. For this writing prompt your character is traveling by plane, train or even a bus and has a very interesting person seated next to them. Who they are and what makes them interesting is up…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-The NaWriNoMo Finish Line
I’m heading into the final week of the NaWriNoMo challenge and so far I’ve only fallen behind on my word count on a few days. I’ve finished one project completely and as the home stretch approaches I’ll be switching between two projects to get to the 50,000 word mark. How is everyone else doing this…
Easy Research
I’ve been getting questions about doing research for fiction books and thought I’d address a few of them here- Crime and Mystery Books You’re writing a mystery novel and you need to know how a certain profession works, say a police officer, district attorney, PI etc. I’ve found that everyone loves to help writers and…