We Write!
Bear with me this morning, folks. I'm pretty much scattergunning this post. This is one of those mornings where my brain is going in a million different directions and I'm trying to pull it back so I can get a few things done before I have to head out of the house. Among the things... Continue Reading →
Long series, foreshadowing and all those pesky details . . . The subject came up, I think on facebook, about whether an Indie writer/publisher should publish each book as it was finished, or wait until the whole series was done, Then publish them on a fairly close schedule. And I’m like . . . finished?... Continue Reading →
For much of our lives, we're told to look forward and not look back. We all know the problem with that. If you don't look back, you don't study history. If we don't study history, we will repeat the mistakes we should have learned from. The same can be said of writing. So let's talk... Continue Reading →
and at the chime, the time is... one thirty seven am. Yeah, I know, I've gone right past the witching hour. I'm not sure what you call this time of night, day, really, since I haven't gotten to sleep yet. I was at work late tonight, and last night, and because I'm a loon, I... Continue Reading →
Life is still up in the air here in my small corner of the Lone Star State. Because of that, I find myself coming up for air with less frequency as real life demands on my time increase. But come up I did this morning. So I went looking for inspiration and came across this... Continue Reading →
This post was originally published in August 2015. The observations are still valid even if some of the players have changed. Back then, we were told the gatekeepers were publishers and agents and we, as writers, hadn't made it until we managed to pass through their oh-so-hallowed halls. Today, the self-proclaimed gatekeepers are those of... Continue Reading →
This must be the week of WTF? sort of stories concerning tradiitional publishing. Yesterday, I blogged about how the Association of American Publishers (AAP) was soooo looking forward to "collaborating" with the new Administration to help bring us all to "enlightened understanding". Then as I sat down to write this post, I find this at... Continue Reading →
I was all prepared to do a fun, cutesy (okay, quit laughing. I know I don't do cutesy. It isn't in my nature) post. Then I ran across something on The Passive Voice that caught my eye. So I clicked through and, even at this early hour, felt my blood pressure rising. The piece basically... Continue Reading →
When I sat down to write this morning's post, I already had an idea in mind. But, because I hadn't inhaled enough coffee to be fully awake, I checked a couple of sites to see if anything jumped out at me. The very first site I looked at linked back to a post by Kris... Continue Reading →
Like many of you, I grew up in a household that valued reading. My parents were both avid readers--Mom still is. They read to me every day until I could read to myself. Even then, they'd read me bedtime stories until I became "too old" for it. It wasn't unusual to find us sitting around... Continue Reading →
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