So I crawled into bed, prepared to settle in quietly and not wake my husband. I shut my eyes and then they opened again. I did not post my Wednesday post. So I roll off the bed, body lengthwise, (learned that trick while very pregnant; it doesn’t shake the bed at all) and out the…
pen and paper Yes, I missed my Wednesday blog alright. Teacher, school, homecoming/spirit week/end of term grading: these are my excuses. I missed my blog and didn’t even notice. But I also missed writing further on my current short story and that I noticed constantly. I managed to ease an hour out of my mad…
I downloaded an ebook this summer called 70 Solutions to Common Writing Mistakes. As I started reading it, I thought is was far too basic for me. After all, I teach creative writing. Wouldn’t I know the basics? But I kept reading it, and then I found myself applying the ideas mentioned in this book…
Scenes scurry about in my mind. I am ready to sit down and write, but I cannot. There is grading to do and house cleaning and time to respond to a child’s needs and a husband’s desire to chat and then of course this blog. So when do I write? I tell myself that this…
magnifying the audience So here I am writing to an empty theater. Not certain what I will do when people are actually reading this blog. Hopefully, this will not be the first post they see. In any case, I sit here writing and thinking about the ghost audience sitting out there. I see one lady…
One of the bonuses that came out of finding yWriter5 (link in the Favorite Sites column to the top right) and then using it to develop my book, In Times Passed, was that as I entered some information into the program about the various characters present in my book, I got to know them better…
Usually when I am working on a story, I find a quiet place to relax and see what comes to mind. But lately, since I started jogging on a treadmill, I have found that running along thinking about the story currently at hand will lead to inspiration. Just yesterday I was running along, and a…
Since this is my first time having a blog, I have decided that Wednesday will be my scheduled blog day. I still may enter other posts, but once a week I will definitely post. Since writing is my focus for this blog, my posts on Wednesday will always relate to publishing and improving writing. Smashwords.com…
