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Today’s post is all about you, or finding out more about you. What do you like? What do you want to hear more about? I’m busy editing and getting my novel ready to go to the next step: beta readers. Those are readers that tell me whether I’m on the right track or not...

I Got Busy and Forgot I forgot about yesterday’s blog. I had a lot going on, like editing my book. I’m still figuring out how to juggle everything, now that I’ve made more work for myself. I’ve been looking for a specific thing, but looking for that specific issue has...

I hesitate to write this, because writing fiction can’t really be taught. The mechanics of writing can be – nouns, verbs, sentence structure, etc. Even things like how to create well-rounded characters and rich settings and descriptions can be taught. What can’t be...

Most of the time the things I write about on this blog are just things I want to write about. There’s not a particular theme. Sometimes it will be about something going on in my life, sometimes it will be about writing, and sometimes I’ll ask you to brainstorm with me...

From early on, we are told “write what you know.” If every writer followed this advice, we wouldn’t have science fiction, or fantasy, or the always-sappy happily-ever-after of romance novels. These are often not real life experiences, so how can someone “know” about...

A lot has changed for my writing life in just the first two and a half months of this year. The class I took at the end of 2023 motivated me to get a lot done and look to organization for help. For years, I’ve been a “pantser” when it comes to writing fiction. That...