Welcome Amie Gibbons! Setting the Stage to Write We’ve all heard of sleep hygiene, right? You turn off laptops and phones so the blue light isn’t signaling your brain to stay up kind of stuff, and following bedtime rituals. That’s basically what I’m hitting on in this post. But for writing. I have a big... Continue Reading →
Falling down the writing rabbit hole
Oops! I guess I should do my best impression of the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland now and start muttering, "I'm late. I'm late. For a very important date." Instead, I'll simply apologize for being late with today's post. I got up way too early and fell down the writing rabbit hole. As I... Continue Reading →
New starts and other thoughts
I'm baaaack! Actually, sleep will come shortly.More on that in a minute. With Risen from Ashes now out, it's time to turn my attention to the next project. Night Shadows is the next entry in the Eerie Side of the Tracks series. I am really excited about this book and the plot is all but... Continue Reading →
Nibbled by Ducks
I’m not doing NaNoWriMo this year, not really. Instead, I’m trying to refocus on writing and remake daily habits around writing. It’s a good thing I’m not doing NaNo, because yesterday I was nibbled to death by ducks. I actually like ducks. Both in real life, and the end result of my fate yesterday, which... Continue Reading →
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast
Now, granted for me that's a little difficult, since my workday routine is to roll out of bed when the alarm goes off at oh god AM, drag clothes on, drop a couple of eggs, some shredded cheese, and some bacon into a tupperware, swallow the morning pharmacopeia, and head in to work. Once I... Continue Reading →
Routine and Habit
So it's Thursday morning and I realize that I totally spaced writing this week's post last night, and - being me - immediately flip to "what do I write about?" because I didn't even think about writing this week's post yesterday. Then the topic landed in my lap: I didn't think about this week's post... Continue Reading →
I am a writer
More than a year ago, I agreed to take part in a new venture. For more than a year before that, I'd been talking with friends in the publishing industry -- writers, agents, etc. -- about the changes happening in publishing. To the man, each of us agreed that publishing as we'd known it was... Continue Reading →