For this prompt it’s your character’s first day at a new job. It’s one where he or she has to travel to meet clients. Their first call is at a house and as they exit their car they see the dog in the photo. Whether it’s a friendly or not so friendly dog is up…
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Friday Ramblings From An Author-Goodbye Printer
The first month of the year is slowly winding down which means the end of the first workshop of 2017. Two more begin Feb 1st and just in case anyone’s interested here are the links. The first one is the synopsis bootcamp which has reached it’s ten participant limit but I’ve given…
Monday Writing Prompts-Five Phrases
This week’s prompt focuses on five phrases that you have to squeeze into your story at least once. They are- Gummy bears. Every day of the week. What’s that noise? Smiling as we walked. Looks like rain. Have fun and happy writing.
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Teaching On a New Venue
Happy Friday to everyone. It’s crazy to think it’s already the 20th of the month. I got lots done this week including uploading some of my writing workshops to a new platform over at Teachable. My school is called The Writer’s Workshop. I’ll be adding more classes there soon. Next week I’ll be working…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Another Week of This and That
Happy Friday everyone. It’s been another week of what I now call this and that. A mixed bag of things I’ve done and achieved. I finally got the print version of How to Write A Romance Novel proofed and it’s now on sale at Amazon. I might add a print Nook version somewhere down the…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-First One in 2017
Happy New Year to you, hope it’s a good one for everyone with lots of stories written and much success. I’m slowly getting back into the swing of things. I had a lazy two weeks during the holidays and had to force myself to get back on track. A new workshop began on Tuesday…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Last One of the Year
It’s almost 2017, can you believe it? What writing goals did you achieve in 2016 and what are you planning on working on in the New Year? I have a full schedule of workshops in 2017 and things kick off on Tuesday. I’m teaching You’ve Written a Manuscript, Now What? for the Low Country…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-Cold, Snow, Cold, Snow
The title I’ve given this week’s Ramblings sums up what the weather has been like this past week. I don’t want to hear anyone singing I’m Dreaming of A White Christmas. It’s snowing again as I write this and it’s not even officially winter yet. I’ll stop my whining now and tell you about the non-weather…
Friday Ramblings From An Author-It’s December
NaNoWriMo is over for another year. How did you do? I’m happy to say at least I got my mystery started. Finishing it is on my to do list for next year. Yesterday my new planner arrived in the mail. It’s the first year I’ve bought one in what seems like forever. I chose one where…
NaNoWriMo-Days 19 and 20
I got too busy with writing to post a tip yesterday but made a note to do it today. As well as writing my NaNoWriMo story, I’m working on two other stories which brings me to today’s tip. If you ever get stuck while you’re writing, one thing that’s always worked for me is switching…