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How Does it All End?

I received questions from two readers that were similar enough that I thought I’d combine them for this week’s post: I’ve been thinking about writing a book about the last 15 months, and I was wondering, how do you storyboard your books? Do you outline, chapter by chapter? Just curious! Do you have to know [...]

The Passion in Writing

Since I started writing I’ve had so many people say to me “I’d love to write, but how do you…(fill in the blank)?”  I’m not going to tout myself as an expert on anything except what I’ve learned through trial and error, but thought it would be fun to answer questions from my readers.  If [...]

What would you do with 10,000 hours?

This past Saturday I attended an amazing concert performed by the American Baroque Orchestra in New Haven,  and sat in the audience close to tears and in utter awe of the brilliance that night.    ABO, led by Artistic Director Mark Bailey, in its second year, is truly one of the best period-performance orchestras in [...]

Your Questions

I can’t even tell you how many people have told me they’d like to write a book, but have questions on the process. What I thought might be kind of fun would be to take questions from y’all and address them here. So if there’s something you’d like to know about, drop by my Facebook page and [...]

Use Your Voice!

I love writing.  I do, and I can get lost for hours in the recesses of my own mind with nothing but some music playing on my speakers and the characters in my head.  But, and this is a huge but, I can’t stand writing the queries and synopses that must accompany my writing in [...]

Nothing is as important as the story

This past weekend I attended the Unicorn Writer’s Conference in Portland, CT – I highly recommend it for anyone who wants to learn more about the craft of writing – and while I’m still processing everything I experienced on Saturday,  I thought I’d share with you a couple things I learned, or rediscovered, over the [...]

Making Peace with Statler and Waldorf

I realized the other day I’ve been working on this novel for about a year.  One year!  And it’s driving me a little batty!  And that’s probably a pretty good explanation for my writer’s block right there – I’ve psyched myself out so completely, every time I sit down at my keyboard, I search tell [...]

Why Scrivener?

A friend from my Writer’s Group told me about Scrivener a few months ago, software that’s designed to help writers work more efficiently, but like most new things, I was reluctant to try it.  I didn’t see why I needed to learn something new when Word was working just fine for me, and, anyway, the [...]

Trying Something New

I’ve painted myself into a corner. Sixty-thousand words into this thing and all of a sudden I’m staring at a fairly solid Romance Novel with no good ending.  Or at least one I sure haven’t found yet in all this mess.  It’s a frustrating place to be and one that is making me take a [...]