Looking at the big picture

Looking at the big picture

I love it when someone blows my mind with an entirely new concept I had never even conceived of before. This happened to me recently when a prolific friend of mine told me that he doesn’t count how many words he writes day-to-day. He doesn’t count how many words he...
Google maps is great but…

Google maps is great but…

Google maps is great, but there is no substitute for actually being there. That was my lesson this past week. A few weeks ago, my husband told me he needed to be in London for a conference for a few days and asked if I wanted to join him. Naturally, I jumped at the...
Could you retire?

Could you retire?

A couple weeks ago I wrote about the impression Kathleen Gilles Seidel had on me when I and Pru Warren interviewed her on our podcast, The Writers’ Block Party. She is such an incredibly strong voice in the world of Romance. She’s not only written Rita winning books,...
Unable to write

Unable to write

You all will have to excuse me this week. You know that I don’t get political, that this isn’t that sort of blog, but my heart is breaking and I am having a great deal of trouble turning off the news. We knew that Ukraine was going to be attacked. We thought that...
Goals for a new year

Goals for a new year

Well, 2021 was another banner year for the world. I cannot tell you how many people have told me that they have had so much trouble focusing and getting their writing done. Accountability is really the watchword for the year. We all need it. But as I write this on the...
Have you explored your Tendencies?

Have you explored your Tendencies?

I could have sworn I’d written a blog post about Gretchen Rubin’s Four Tendencies, but somehow when I went to look for it today, it wasn’t there – not on my website or in the file of blog posts I’d written. I am going to correct this oversight right now! Gretchen...