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The Eleventh Month

by Margie Senechal

I saw a meme yesterday that said, welcome to the month between Halloween and Christmas. Too true. I think November gets slighted just a bit. 

I love November almost as much as October. 

I love the winds picking up and the accompanying call of the chimes in my trees. 

I love bazaar season. In fact, I request to close on Saturdays--much to my coworkers delight--so I can shop and scope out craft ideas that I will never get around to trying, except for the hundreds o...

#WW: Surviving #NANO ~ @AuthorKristina Knight

It's November first, and all across the globe, typewriters, computers, tablets, notebooks-and-pens are whirring and scratching and clack-a-lacking to life as published and aspiring authors try to write a novel (50,000 words) in a single month. The theory is if you can create a daily writing habit in November - when life (and preps for the upcoming holiday season) is most certainly going to get in the way, you can create that habit during the other 11 months of year.

This is the part where I le...

Bird by Bird

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Liz...in black and white

I love color. I have a heck of a time picking a favorite--usually blue--because when I'm deciding, a gorgeous shade of red will jump in there...or some earth tones...and...wow...how do you decide? So it took me a while to jump on the Seven-days, seven black-and-white photos, no people, no explanations challenge on Facebook. But I did.

It was fun to do. I had musical things, because being married to a musician changes all things. Brightens things. Adds immeasurably to my life's private soundtra...

Facebook Halloween Hop and Giveaway!

I'm part of a Halloween Hop with many prizes to be won. Enter the Giveaway (link below) and hop on the Facebook hop. There will be a gift card prize to be won at every stop on the Facebook Hop - that's over 70 gift cards to be won! I hope you'll join us!

HALLOWEEN FACEBOOK HOP & GIVEAWAY!Over 70 Authors ~ 2 Awesome Giveaways
We’re treating romance readers to an autumn full of cool prizes. Enter the Falling in Love Romance Giveaway October 24–November 14 and you could take home one...

My Reading Challenge

by Margie Senechal

Something happened on the way toward my read fifty books in a year commitment.

I rediscovered my love of reading. And discovered new genres that I'd been missing out on. I'd like to say the latter was because of the read/watch challenge, but I basically abandoned that one in March or something.

So, for the fifty book challenge, I am currently reading books 40 and 41--one on my Kindle and one hardcopy. That's the other thing I discovered--I like reading "books" again. For the p...

2017 Reading Challenge Update from @AuthorKristina Knight

I was going to check in quarterly with this whole reading challenge, and I just realized we're almost halfway through the 4th quarter without an update, and I'm also pretty sure I skipped right over the 3rd quarter update, too. Whoopsie!

I am reading, though, that's the big thing, right?

Okay, to recap, Liz announced she was doing a 50-books-in-2017 challenge. I thought, hey, I can read 50 books this year...so I glommed on. And Roni Loren is doing a monthly themed, read/watch challenge and that...

On Being “Famous”

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It was going so well, too...

Writing, as I wind down on the book that is due December 1, has gone well the past couple of weeks. I've gotten out of a snarl or two. I've said--right out loud-- "Where in the world did that come from?" when the plot took off on its own in the middle of the night and came back with surprises. I've told Duane, "I can't write one more word. My brain is just totally fried," before coming back out to the office and writing some more.

I love it.

I was writing on Friday or Saturday, and the wor...

Why Not Me?

I get a lot of emails, probably because I sign up for a lot of stuff. Some I delete right away (why did I sign up for this anyway?), others I skim through, and some I actually read. One of the few newsletter-type emails I actually read is from Joseph Michael. His “Cup of Joe” email is interesting and often has some information I can use. A recent Cup of Joe really resonated with me.

My post on Word Wranglers a few Saturdays ago was about finding motivation. I need inspiration to help me finish...