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March 13, 2020
A Sad And Hopeful Day
This is a non-writer post…. We make our living selling fudge-filled banana bread, fudge and cinnamon nuts at events both out-of-doors and inside. Our treats are wonderful and we do well. But things are changing fast, thanks to a nasty virus that’s now a pandemic. We’re watching our #income slipping away as event after event …
March 8, 2020
Reading Outside Your Comfort Zone
Why would anyone read something they aren’t sure they’ll enjoy? Are there reasons? Actually, yes there are reasons to read outside your comfort zone and the reasons are too numerous to mention them all in this post. But here are a few: You might find that you enjoy this different type of story and look …
March 5, 2020
What does good writing have that bad writing doesn’t?
What does good writing have that bad writing doesn’t? Good writing connects the writer and the reader. In really good writing, that connection between what the writer is trying to portray and what the reader sees is so tight that the reader will become immersed in the story and not let go until the last …
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March 2, 2020
How much rewriting should an author do?
A newbie author asked me how much rewriting should be done. I had a hard time keeping a straight face because the question almost made me double over with laughter. Because there is no right answer and because every writer struggles with how much rewriting to do. Every writer. Every time. That said, I’ve had …
February 27, 2020
Do you ever truly finish anything?
A wanna-be writer recently asked how to know when to stop rewriting and get the manuscript out there. As my husband often reminded me with a slightly exasperated expression whenever I admitted that I wasn’t ‘quite’ ready to send in a manuscript, most writers never know. You just stop rewriting at some point and do …
February 24, 2020
100 baby chickens.
I have mixed emotions about chickens. On the one hand, the babies are cute. And for some reason I’m unable to comprehend, raising chickens is becoming more and more popular. Kids seem to love them. I don’t know why. When I was in elementary school, my mother decided we would raise chickens so she sent …
February 20, 2020
Spaghetti sauce
I am a spaghetti aficionado. I love to make almost anything made with tomatoes. Spanish rice. Chili. Chili mac. Lasagna. Mostly, though, I make spaghetti. Actually, I make spaghetti sauce. When it’s done, I cook a dozen or so pieces of pasta and throw them into the sauce because it seems the right thing …
February 17, 2020
Where is the beginning?
Where to start a story? How to begin the journey? Believe it or not, there’s a specific answer to this question, one that many, possibly most, would-be writers don’t know. Start where and when the main character begins to interact with whatever he/she must deal with in order to get to the end of the …
February 14, 2020
February 13, 2020
Pantsers.
A wanna-be writer asked me what a pantser is. Easy. A pantser is someone who writes by the seat of their pants. They put the seat of their pants on the seat of their chair and start writing whatever comes into their mind and revise it later. Plotters, on the other hand, plan ahead and …
