The Deeper Why

The Deeper Why

  As you all know, I’ve been taking a book coaching course with a company called Author Accelerator. It’s been fantastic! This dog has learned some new tricks! lol! I love learning new ways of looking at writing, at craft, at editing. One thing that...
Putting the Pieces Together Right

Putting the Pieces Together Right

Do you like puzzles? I love puzzles. I love to figure out logical puzzles like sudoku, spatial puzzles like Tetris, card game puzzles like Spider. I spend a good amount of time working on puzzles. Why am I telling you this in a blog about writing? Because writing a...
Writing Romance With a Deeper Meaning

Writing Romance With a Deeper Meaning

I’ve been really struggling with the book I’m writing. It’s #6 in my Ladies’ Wagering Whist Society series and it’s a lot more difficult than almost all of the others that came before because I accidentally stumbled into a huge, current issue: #metoo. How does one...
What are your resolutions? Word?

What are your resolutions? Word?

  This is it folks, the last of the Great Questions to Start The Year! Woohoo! We made it! The last question I’m asking you think about as we start off this new year and new decade is the classic: Do you have any new year’s resolutions? And what is your word for...
The End

The End

James Scott Bell, begins his book The Last Fifty Pages, with the quote by Mickey Spillane: “The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.” I love that quote and it’s so very true. It’s also very true that endings are hard. Damned hard! We work to...
Asking the Right Questions

Asking the Right Questions

Sometimes when you write you just get stuck. No matter how well you plot, no matter how well you think things out beforehand, sometimes things just come to a sputtering halt in your writing and you aren’t sure how to go on. When that happens, I always find that asking...