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September 28, 2015
Writing Series: Major Revisions
This article was written for Operation Awesome and appears originally HERE. ****************************************************** One of my favorite sayings when the horror of writing the first draft starts to settle in is this: It’s enough to keep me blazing through until the end, even when my inner fears whisper this is the worst thing ever written in […]
September 17, 2015
Operation Awesome
Thank you to the folks at Operation Awesome who let me visit and share a previous article with their readers. If you’re looking for inspiration for all kinds of writing topics, drop in and visit them. Here’s a link to my Guest Post.Filed under: Guest Posts, Writing Tagged: guest posts, writing tips
September 15, 2015
Fear of Rejection
The arrow of the mouse pointer hovering over the ‘Send’ button. The email meticulously crafted, submission guidelines checked and double-checked. Once sent, it cannot be undone. Will they love it? Will they hate it? Is it good enough? Will anyone else love it like I do? Will anyone besides my husband and my writing group […]
August 25, 2015
Coming to a Comic Con Near You This September
I hinted in my last post about some crazy new thing I’ve gotten myself involved with and today is the unveiling to the world what we’ve got cooking… ROCK! OPERA! COMEDY! The Steampunk Rock Opera is a partially scripted improv play by Paul Genesse with singing, comedy and the awesome eight-member band, RUSTMONSTER led by […]
August 21, 2015
Learning to Say No
I believe I’ve found the next lesson the Universe is trying to force feed me. I cannot do everything as I have always done. My days feel shorter, my nights more jam packed with activities and commitments, and I’m consistently bombarded with new offers and new projects. My first reaction is to say yes immediately, […]
July 25, 2015
The Birth of a Story; or How It Feels to Finish Drafting
I am on cloud nine. Want to shout from the rooftops. I just finished a short story that almost killed me to write. Why was this one so hard? I don’t know. Maybe because I had only a vague idea and not enough of a story before I embarked on the writing so it turned […]
July 12, 2015
Why Every Fiction Writer Should Be Writing Short Fiction
I know you. You’re a novelist, an aspiring writer of the next great novel. Forging ahead through the jungle of self-doubt and rejections. I know, because I am just like you. Only I found a shortcut to success in the most unlikely of places: writing short stories. Short fiction is an amazing avenue—even for those […]
July 9, 2015
Living vs. Surviving
Survival is one of those instinctual things. Most people find a way to do it every day without thinking about it. Some are more resilient than others and some take more effort to grab at the bootstraps before pulling themselves up by them. My most recent epiphany is that there is a difference between living […]
July 2, 2015
Ghost Hunting 101
I’m a horror writer; one who is working on a ghost story of sorts and who lived in a haunted house for seven years. So when I heard there was a local ghost hunter who was organizing an investigation that others could attend, I jumped at the chance. It was one of those bucket list […]
June 11, 2015
Baby steps to achieving goals
My health has settled down a bit lately – still in remission from kidney disease, manageable medications with minimal side effects, still working on clearing my lungs of the last of the blood clots that are holding on for dear life. Most days, life is good and I almost forget that I have a chronic […]
