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…
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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…
Monday Writing Prompt-Dead End
This writing prompt is all about dead ends. What type of dead end it actually is I leave up to you. It could be a dead end street, a character who’s in a dead end job or even relationship. Have fun and happy writing.
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Half Way Through NaWriNoMo
Where I live we had the first snow of the season and first taste of a cold blast. I don’t mind snow it’s just I hate it hanging around for so long. Looking on the positive side at least it keeps me indoors and writing. Speaking of which, it’s the halfway point of this year’s…
Monday Writing Prompt-First Line
Here’s something a little different for this writing prompt. I thought of this because where I live we’re in the middle of the first winter storm of the season. I always say look around and you’ll find something to write about. So for this story the opening line is- Isn’t it a bit early for…