Tips and Advice About Writing and Self-Publishing
I’ve been talking about my summer reading list and how I didn’t finish three of the books. I chose another three and today, gave up reading the first one on this new list. Please excuse me if I now climb onto my soapbox. I can’t say for sure if all the books on my didn’t read…
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Get outside while you can has become my new slogan. One day sunny and warm, the next three, chilly and overcast/rainy. I think spring’s forgotten to visit this year. At least it makes you think about making the most of every day! With the great outdoors not calling my name, I got lots of work…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Revisiting Characters
This site started as a way to keep myself accountable for my writing. My intent was to use it to keep myself to a writing schedule. My first idea was to keep it private. However, I knew other writers might be struggling too so I turned it into a blog. It’s grown, it’s evolved, and this week…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-We Made It To 700 TWL Followers
Happy April. The days are getting longer but the weather turned chilly again. I know spring’s out there somewhere. I had a week off from teaching and tried to use it wisely. I had the opportunity to e-mail and chat with one of my private students who I’ve been mentoring for about six months. It’s…
In recent Ramblings, I’ve mentioned lots of projects I’m working on and I can finally share a couple of them with you. The first one is another web site that I’d planned to use as a sister site to this one and have it focus on my self-publishing journey. I’m ashamed to…
Read more Go Self Published Launches (and so does my new journal/planner)
It seems like it’s been an odd week because it had a holiday sandwiched in the middle of it. I almost forgot that today was Friday. I spent a good part of the day outside working on upcoming projects. One of those is finally deciding what to do with a site I sort of…
If you’re thinking about taking this year’s NaNoWriMo challenge you might be interested in registering for the workshop I’m teaching for the Maryland Romance Writers…and no, it’s not just for authors who are planning to write a romance novel. I’ll share tips that will get you ready for when November 1st rolls around- …
Read more Taking the NaNoWriMo Challenge or Thinking about Self-Publishing…Maybe Even Both!
Welcome to summer…or winter if you’re in the southern part of the world. It doesn’t feel much like summer today but I’m not complaining because the cooler temps are just fine with me. This week I’ve been participating in an online retreat. Not a writing one, but workshops that center around creativity. One common theme…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Self-Publishing Made Easy
It’s been a hot week…and it’s getting hotter, and it’s also been a busy week. I got rights back to two stories that had appeared in anthologies five years ago. I usually like to give them a rewrite and polish them up some more. Some I like to give a total make-over. It’s amazing how…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Two Books Down and One to Go
It’s a beautiful spring day and I’m tempted to go outside and write but I’ll probably get distracted and nothing will get done. I set two goals for this past week. One was to get the first story in my new series Cowbear Haven finished and published. I achieved that yesterday. Here’s the cover. Once again,…
Read more Friday Ramblings From An Author-Another Short Story Class
