Hello fellow authors. Happy fall (or spring). It will soon be that time of year again. NaNoWriMo will be upon us before we know it. For the first time in many years, I’m going to take part. I’ll be writing a cozy mystery. How about you, are you up to the challenge? Have you tried…
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The Fearless Freelancer
Have you ever thought about becoming a freelance writer…yes, even if you’ve only written fiction up till now. That’s the position I found myself in back in 2000 when I quit my job at a publishing company. I woke up the following morning thinking about what I was going to do to pay my bills….
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Many Projects, Little Time
Welcome to March and it’s almost spring. Or maybe it’s almost fall in your part of the world. I had every intention of posting more content here this week but I’ve been working on too many projects. Yes, that’s often my downfall. Too many ideas all at once. I’m still working on turning all my…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-The To Do List
Just when I thought I had my January to do list all worked out, I realized I need to be more organized. I’ve been working on the new format for the short story class and realized I had files here and files there and pulling everything together was making it seem like I was going…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-First One of 2021
How did you first week of 2021 turn out? I hope you got lots of writing done…even got an acceptance letter or call about a story. This week seemed strange because for the first time in 12 years, I’m not teaching a class. I did however, begin work on the first class I’ll be uploading…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Thank You Students
It’s December and that means all the classes for the year are done. This week, I said goodbye to the old teaching format, that being classes offered by e-mail. Next year, I’ll start setting up self paced ones and two and four hour ones via Zoom or other online platforms. When December 1st rolled around,…
What’s Happening In 2021?
No guest blogger today. Instead, I thought I’d share with you my plans for This Writer’s Life in 2021. I have some changes in the works. First one will be switching over from WordPress.com to WordPress.org. I’ll be doing that over the holiday break the end of December. Hopefully, it will go smoothly. I have…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Happy Halloween
Almost the end of October. Classes end today and two boot camps kick off on Monday. My first time teaching two boot camps in one month. It will also be the last time I’ll be teaching classes in their current format. So, if you want to learn how to plot a novel or write a…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-No Internet
A late Ramblings this week because when I woke up this morning to discover no Internet. These days, I guess we take it for granted and it’s not until you can’t connect that you realize how big a role it plays in our lives. I’m now playing catch up with replying to e-mails and uploading…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Snow, Sun…You Name It!
Less than 30 minutes ago, I glanced out of the window and saw snow falling. Not just flakes, but heavy snow and thought about all the leaves that need raking, the umbrella and patio furniture that still need storing away for winter. Panic set in thinking this was it, winter had arrived, but now as…