All Blog Posts Tagged 'Writing' (105)

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So, I got these two kittens a few months back. Ragamuffin is a torty; Rusty is orange and fluffy. They were rescued from a stray cat's litter.

I'm trying hard not to be an over-protective mother. When Rusty, the clueless male, climbed up to the top of the tree, I had the crazy idea to send his much more sensible sister to fetch him down. She obeyed and went to the rescue like a St. Bernard.

Which left me to wonder: when did I acquire cat-logic? Was it after the…

So back in December I was tagged by Laura Susan Johnson of the USA, author of Crush a graphic and intriguing novel about the life long love affair between two gay men struggling with their own demons and dealing with the hate they face from the outside world and themselves.

Here is a link to her site…

Are they beneficial and helpful, or stressful and frustrating?  Both! 

Several years ago, when the idea of writing my first novel was conceived into my soul, I joined an online writing group called CritiqueCircle.com.  I was excited to be in a group of like-minded individuals, where most understood me.  Having no other writers in my family, most not even casual readers, I felt odd, alone and most often without a voice.  Explaining something creative in a room full of…

One of the most discouraging things I witness among writers, especially those new to the publishing game, is a defeatist attitude.  They didn’t start with that sort of attitude, but developed it over, most often, a short period of time.  The common denominator in most cases stemmed from the writer being…

This morning I have been trying to figure out a glitch in my WordPress site that prevents widget displays in the third footer space.  Aargh!  I haven't had problems like this with my blogger blog. 

...every word in the dictionary! And, thank goodness for the delete button! I am so tired of writing romance and/or erotica; I actually had fire shooting out of...(Okay--yeah, you get the point!)

I wrote over 40K words (deadline Nov 24)--and need to hit 50K!! Right about 39K, I realized a fundamental weakness in the plot--and started over. Not the first time...won't be the last time, but...UGH!

I didn't scrap the previous work--just started over! I'm now 26.5K…

Today is the halfway mark in the NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) challenge, the fifteenth day of thirty days and nights of literary abandon to write a 50,000 word novel.  I’m excited to say that I’m well beyond the mid-point…

Some experiences challenge accepted ideas.  In the last days, we’ve seen the entire east coast region in a black out, cut off from transportation and even communication.  Yet this vulnerability hasn’t brought on any foreign attack.  The U.S. still has so much to offer other nations that its presence is probably too vital for any planned attack.  I grew up during the Cold War era and since then, our defense system may have operated on a foundation of paranoia.  I was glad to hear of the…

Fifteen years ago, I walked the beach of Lake Michigan with my mom.  We had just taken KT to camp and wanted to stretch our legs before enduring the long car ride.  “I am writing a book,” I said, feeling undeserved and timid.  As an accountant, military wife, and mom, what did I know about writing?  The…

Relentless promotion is the cross that any author must bear. Whether we want to or not and despite if we are signed to an agent or a major publishing company. Writing the book is only a small portion of the battle given the 4 stages of publishing a book: Creation, Production, Distribution, and the big one:…

I’d like to submit a few syllables on the subject of using real events and/or people in fiction as opposed to creating everything out of thin air.

Just recently I read a blog that discussed this subject and it reminded me that not too many years ago I was having difficulty with this very thing.

For a long time I had it in my dense little head that fiction, by definition, should be fiction. I strove for that to no avail.…

It's not like I'm fearing for the world's literacy and taste,…

As A Reader

On Sunday evenings, I load my Nook with short stories for my daily commute. I search using key phrases for what I like. Often times, I get what I expected. But some times, I get what I didn't want. Neither the tags nor the blurb led me to a story I wanted to read. This can be very frustrating as it means that my nightly writing time is comprised by having to search for additional reading material for my 45 minute train ride to…