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The Things We Assume

Yesterday I read a post by Rheea Mukherjee about Negotiating Social Privilege as a writer.  Her post made me think about the things that we assume. Cell phones.  Write a story without cell phones or a story where a plot point hinges on a dropped call and people will challenge you on it.  I’ve seen […]

Shaking Things Up: Making Big Changes

Last Thursday as he left for work, my son dropped a request in my lap. “I’m having the everyone over to game tomorrow.  Can we swap the living room with the dining room?” We’ve done this before.  Our living room is much larger and when all the leaves are in the dining room table scooting […]

Goals: Making Them Real

About a week ago, I read a blog post by one of my writing pals, “Write Your Dreams into Existence.”  In her post, Renee talks about how to make your goals more real by journaling as if you’ve achieved them.  These are present realities, not pie-in-the-sky dreams for tomorrow. I have to admit that the […]

Rewriting: Cutting Excess Words

Whew.  That’s always a lot of work.  I’ve been rewriting which often comes down to making sure I have the strongest nouns and verbs so that I can keep my writing as tight as possible.  Of course, that involves cutting excess words. My own personal problem words?  “That” and “start.” “Start” is definitely a word […]

Library Con Live: Free One Day Virtual Event

If you are into graphic novels, science fiction, fantasy or other speculative fiction, consider registering for this free event.  As described by Library Journal and School Library Journal, “We’re excited to offer a day-long celebration of fandom-beloved stories and characters, from mind-bending speculative fiction to innovative comics and graphic novels. You’ll also learn from librarians and industry insiders […]

Inktober: Why This Writer Is Gearing Up for an Illustration Challenge

I would love to say that I have a good answer to that question.  Drawing fascinates me although I’m not expecially good at it.  But I’m also someone who holds fast to the idea that you need to do creative things that are hard. Why?  Because as a creative professional it is easy for me […]

Comp Titles: What They Are and When You Need Them

Comp titles.  Just say it and I shudder.  I hate trying to come up with good comp titles. For those of you who don’t recognize the term, comp is short for complimentary.  Comp titles are titles that are similar in some way to your manuscript.  You use them in your cover or query letter to […]

Fueling Your Writing

On most Labor Day weekends, we head out of town.  We go down to Wayne County in southern Missouri.  Unfortunately, this year the boy had to work on Saturday and Sunday. I’m going to be getting some work done.  After all, I have a book deadline coming up and I’m helping write the questions for […]

Backstory: Keeping It Where It Belongs

Write a chapter.  Write a second chapter and realize that something in the first one needs to be changed.  Rewrite the first one. Tired of this particular process and the limited progress that went along with it, I decided to outline the beats in my cozy before writing any more.  And that’s when I made […]

A Writer’s Office: My Work Space

Recently someone asked writers on Twitter to share their office spaces.  Where do we work?  My space is hard to photograph because it is, according to real estate agents, a bedroom, approximately ten feet by eleven feet.  I have a desk that wraps around three walls of the room.  One leg is mine.  The other […]