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November 3, 2020
November Challenge Day 3 | #nanowrimo
If there was one thing that has been true all her life, it was that she couldn’t depend on anything to just work itself out for her good; and when everything hit the fan, she was good and truly on her own.
November Challenge Day 2 | #nanowrimo
When Mom and Dad said they were going to hire someone to help out with cooking and light housekeeping, Kars had imagined someone like his grandmother, not this curvaceous creature who’d looked like a 1940s starlet the first time he’d met her.
November 1, 2020
November Challenge Day 1 | #nanowrimo
At his intense scrutiny, Mac became suddenly and acutely aware of her appearance: no makeup, yoga pants and oversize T-shirt, and hair still in pin-curls and covered with a flowery chiffon kerchief. At least they weren’t pink foam rollers, right?
November Writing Challenge | #nanowrimo
November 1 is once more upon us, which means millions of published, unpublished, and first-time writers are picking up the challenge to write 50,000 words of a novel in 30 days. Many times in the past, I’ve signed up for this challenge, assuring myself that even though I haven’t created a daily writing habit in […]
October 31, 2020
Plan with Me | November 2020 Planner Design in MS Publisher
As I struggle to find the creative juices to return to writing regularly, I have allowed my creativity to flow in other ways—and in ways that also indulge my left-brain/analytical side, such as designing and keeping a planner. And since I’m doing it, I might as well share it. So… Come along on my graphic […]
October 8, 2020
Design with Me | October 2020 Planner Design in MS Publisher
Come along on the journey with me as I design my October 2020 planner pages. I use MS Publisher for this process, with a 2-page spread layout to enable printing front-and-back to put into my three-ring binder. Let me know if there are any parts of this design process you’d like to see done slower/with […]
September 12, 2020
Sometimes You Eat the Carrot First
As you all may remember, my last book came out in 2013 (An Honest Heart) and I haven’t really been able or motivated to write since then. Every year, I say I’m going to get my writing “mojo” back. And each year, I jotted down a few ideas for stories or characters. But everything just […]
August 21, 2020
Plan with Me – September 2020
I create planner pages every month, but after a two-month study (at work) of the Enneagram personality typing system, September is about DOING (my repressed area) rather than just THINKING (my strength area). So making sure my planner is pulled together and ready to go is part of that! Come along on my graphic design […]
May 19, 2020
Possible Paranormal Prologue | #amwriting #writingchallenge
In the aftermath of all that is and all that was. When the devil comes to collect his debts. When those good and true in society determine the time has come. That’s when we will be free. That’s when the veil will be lifted, the lamp lighted, the scales removed from their eyes. Until then, […]
April 28, 2020
#WritingTips from my Bookshelf: Write What You Know
Excerpt from Naming the World: And Other Exercises for the Creative Writer by Bret Anthony Johnston (Editor) Though write what you know is perfectly sound advice, I always encourage my students to live other lives in their fiction. I think one of the main reasons new writers dont finish short stories or novels is because []
