The Deeper Why

Feb 23, 2020 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing, Writing Craft

  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

Feb 16, 2020 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

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

Feb 9, 2020 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

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...

The End

Dec 8, 2019 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

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

Dec 1, 2019 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

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...

Getting Ready for NaNoWriMo

Oct 6, 2019 | Blog, Method, WIP, Writing

Happy Halloween! That’s crazy, isn’t it? It’s only the first week of October and already everything is suddenly Halloween crazy. Pumpkin spice everything is all around, you can’t escape it. But in the writing world, we are all looking to November and NaNoWriMo...