The Writing Journey: Your Guide to Writing During a Global Pandemic Shakespeare allegedly wrote King Lear while under quarantine. (And he didn’t even have a typewriter back then, much less a computer. He had to write everything by hand!) So, you should have no trouble getting that book done, right? (You know–the one you’ve been […]
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TBR – To Be Read. Every reader has one of these piles. Maybe it consists of stacks of books on your nightstand, or hundreds of eBooks in your Kindle, or audio files in your iPhone. What does yours say about you as a person? Let’s dig in and find out. 1. Which of the following
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5 Reasons Why Mixed-Genre Novels Are Best Before I was an author, I was a reader. I read A LOT of books over the years. (In fact, I taught myself to read at three years old because I wanted to write stories so badly.) And, one of the things I realized early on is that
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New Office I have a dirty little secret to share. For years, my office was in my bedroom. While there are many things I love about my house, one thing I don’t love is that it’s only two bedrooms. Sure, they are HUGE bedrooms (our house has a very open floor plan with tons of
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What Will People Say? If you’ve read some of my earlier Writing Journey’s, you know that my fiction writing was a bit of a dirty secret. Which meant I didn’t share the fact I wrote fiction, much less the books themselves, with a lot of people. One of the most interesting things that happened once
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Adventures in Cooking Every now and then it’s important to venture out of the writing cave and do some other creative pursuit. In this case, I thought I’d try cooking. So, before I go any further, let me explain that I’m not the cook in my household. My hubby is. Except for days he has
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A Day In The Life Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness. Wayne Dyer Writing a novel (at least for me) is never a straight line. There are lots
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7 Things I’m Celebrating from 2018 One of the rituals I do in December is to take some time to pause and reflect on the past year before putting a plan together for the new one. Why do I do that? Because as a society, we don’t celebrate our successes nearly enough. We’re all so
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