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A Place to Go #AmReading ~ @AuthorKristina Knight

Nan may have thought she was the space cadet yesterday, but I think I really am...because I thought I had a post all scheduled and ready and here I am at 8:20 with nothing. So, I'm re-posting an oldie but (I hope) a goodie. Read on! 

I've lived and visited a lot of places in my life. I grew up in Missouri and can tell you about minute differences you'll find from the Boot Heel to the Rural Centers and the Cities. I've lived in Nebraska and Ohio and can probably answer a lot of trivia abou...

I Am a Space Cadet...

Confession? I totally spaced blogging here today. I dunno why I'm so dippy right now--cold weather freezing my brain? Overwhelmed with work, writing, and family responsibilities? Who knows? All I know for sure is that I spent last night sipping tea and watching Netflix and knitting, which was a lovely, lovely break, but it didn't get my article written, now did it? But instead of beating myself up for four paragraphs, I think I'll just send you some fun places. Does that work for you?

The firs...

The perfect gift @Liz Flaherty

We've just passed the traditional season of gift-giving. I had a glorious time buying gifts and opening gifts and using the gifts I was given. No matter how old I get, I love the whole gift-giving process, whether I'm the giver or the getter.

I've been given some superb gifts in my life, haven't you? My daughter's birthday is Thursday, reminding me that our kids were perfect gifts. The ones they married. The Magnificent Seven. Not that they're unflawed--they are human beings, after all--but as...

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The In-Between Time

by Ava Cuvay

I finished my third novel over the holidays (I might have already screamed that fact from the rooftops), and spent much of the Christmas Break tweaking it (I might have already whined about that need in a previous blog). ;-)

Last week, I sent it off to a couple critique partners for their gut reaction to the story and characters. I figured fine-tuning comma splices and dangling participles could wait until I knew the story worked. Ensuring that I’m showing instead of telling doesn...

#GoalSetting and Word Setting

Is setting goals the secret to success?It’s 2018! Hard to believe another year has passed. A lot of us make New Year’s Resolutions. There’s the usual suspects – lose weight, eat healthier, exercise more. I know, because I’ve made those same resolutions numerous times (Don’t ask how successful I’ve been).

But for a writer, it’s important to do more than make resolutions. We need to set goals. I've got to get to work on mine.

My Production Goals:
I’ve been talking forever about the three-book seri...

Meetings and Partings

by Ava Cuvay

Happy 2018! New Years are a perfect time to reflect on the previous year and make  plans for the new. Like a new story, the new year is a book of blank pages waiting to be filled. But we don't approach these blank pages with our own "blankness"... Instead, we come to the table with a lifetime of experience, the good and the bad, and we hope we can keep the good and dump (or at least improve) the bad. 

A New Year is kind of our chance to edit our lives. ;-)
Each New Year...

Not a Word...

by Margie Senechal
 
My daughter thinks I'm cheating this year because I'm choosing a phrase and not just a single word. You can let me know in the comments after I finish pleading my case.

For the past few months I've been in a state of stagnation. I'm not moving forward figuratively or literally. 

While I enjoy my day/night job--especially the people I work with--it's just a job. While I'm at work, I tend to give it my all, but it's not where I want to be ten years from now. At least...

Bloom Where You're Planted ~ @AuthorKristina Knight

I'm looking at the calendar this morning. It's January 1, 2018, and I'm not quite sure how we got here. I mean, I know it has to be 2018 - this isn't a very elaborate and intricate dream - and yet, it kind of feels like it should only be 2012 or maybe 2013. It doesn't feel like this should be the year bebe turns 10, or that I celebrate my sixth year of being a published author.

It just doesn't feel as if six years have passed since my first book came out...or that 10 years have passed since I...

Words or Resolutions?

Happy New Year! 2018 is upon us and for me the new year came in like fog--on little cat feet. We had a lovely quiet New Year's Eve with our kids, celebrating the fact that they've just moved back home after living 2000 miles away for the last fifteen years. We toasted all the joys of 2017 and said good-bye to all the sorrows. And we made no resolutions for 2018 because, inevitably, we won't keep them. Trust me on this--I've made roughly about 50 New Year's resolutions and I've never kept a si...