Organize Yourself

Jan 6, 2019 | Blog, Method, Writing, Writing Craft

With the new year, I love to re-organize myself. I create a new calendar (modified from Audrey Hughey’s fantastic author planner) and take a good look at my computer filing system to make sure that all my books and pictures are well backed up and everything is easily...

Goals, Hopes, and Dreams

Dec 23, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing, Writing Craft

Do you make New Year’s resolutions? Have you ever kept any?If you answered yes, and yes, then kudos to you! Most people make them and then don’t keep them. Personally, I gave up making New Year’s resolutions years ago. If I want to lose weight, start going to the gym...

What’s your word going to be?

Dec 16, 2018 | Life, Writing

Continuing on with our theme of goals, which inadvertently happened but works for this time of year… A friend of mine introduced me to the concept of having a word for the year. The word is something you aspire to, something you hope to achieve, something to...

Your Goals

Dec 9, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

The very first thing I do when I start creating a new protagonist is to think about their goals. What do they want? What are they going to spend the duration of the book working toward? Of course, I then need to figure out why they want that goal and what’s stopping...

Writing Space and 10 Essential Tools

Dec 2, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

People have been talking quite a bit recently about an author’s “writing space”. This month’s Insecure Writer’s Support Group askes the question “What are five objects we’d find in your writing space?” and I’ve seen the question in other forms asked in other places,...

Don’t Give Up–Ever

Nov 18, 2018 | Blog, Life, Writing

This week we have a very special guest post from Sha Renee. Sha is one of those writers we all strive to be–warm-hearted and generous. She offered to host any author on her blog during the month of November in an effort to give back to the writing community. She...