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Welcome to Not Now. I’m Writing.

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Finally a blog just about the writing bits. Hello, this is Barbara. You may already know…

New Article: Where Did HTML Come From?

I’ve written a brief article on the origin of HTML if you’re interested – You…

Two Recently Published Articles on HTML

When I’m not writing fiction, I’m writing articles about topics that interest me. A few…

A List of Things to Do INSTEAD of Writing Your Book

1. Consider baking bread. 2. Convince your dog it is, in fact, time for yet…

There is no internet.

It is 8:14a.m. on Sunday, and I have no internet. I live nomadically. This means I am typically at the whim of whatever free Wifi that’s available. Right now, there is none. This is excellent news actually as I have a draft to finished, but it also means that I cannot do any of my [...]

Getting used to People Again

We’ve been back in Nashville for a week, and I am still not used to seeing so many people. We were alone in a small town for months. Talking to people is very foreign. Driving in a densely populated city is hard now. I had gotten used to our little bubble. It feels at once [...]

Why I Don’t Enjoy Music

I rarely listen to music. I don’t like it. Of course, there are exceptions to this. I will never turn down Marvin Gaye. Marvin Gaye only gets turned up. If Africa by Toto comes on, we will all be quiet and listen to it all the way through. Other than these and a few other [...]

Congratulations on Your First Children’s Book, Alyson M. Brown!

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I have been happy crying about this all day. One of the writers from the How to Write a Children’s Book course took it all the freaking way, and published this: I was checking my email this morning and saw this: Which lead to my very professional…

Fountain Pens.

When it comes to writing tools, I am an equal opportunity employer. Cheap pens, gel ink, liquid ink, expensive, ballpoint, and, of course, fountain. Fountain pens are my favorite. They are a bit fuzzy at times, but when they work, you can feel the words coming out of them. No struggle. Just flow. Two random [...]

Four Drafts

Here are the blog posts I’ve started to write this month and never finished (-some I never got further than the headline): I Watched Hamilton. There was crying. More? Whenever you publish a book-a book that may have taken you a year to make from nothing-people ask, “is there more?” This is excellent. They want [...]