The Journey Part IV
Even Introverted Writers Need to Build Relationships After writing last month’s blog and being out and about in town, doing the clichéd things writers do—like writing over a steaming mug…
Struck by Lightning
I often get asked if my characters are based on real people. Sometimes they are, at least in part;I’ve only rarely written a character with a single real person in…
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Words as Art
I consider myself, as part of Bumbershoots Writers Society, the only full-time completely non-writing member of the group. Although, here I am writing. Dictating, actually, because I do some of…
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The Journey, Part III
Is Something Working? Writing can be a lonely process (except for maybe the voices in your head, characters vying for attention). However, none of us are truly alone in this…
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When My Mojo is Workin’
There’s an old blues song which to me sums up that feeling when everything in the universe (especially my writing!) is going my way. ‘Got My Mojo Working’ is a…
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When Darkness Beckons
This post was originally a guest appearance on Patricia Stover's website April 5 2023. If you enjoy Things That Go Bump in the Night (and don't we all?) check her…
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The Journey, Part II
Do I really need a platform? In the first part of this series, I mentioned a couple of books that I would be using as tools to help me learn…
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Hit the Ground Running
There's a claim out there that if a work of fiction doesn't grab the reader on the first page, it never will. The whole "slow burn" approach to writing, which…
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The Journey
I Want to Write, Not Market I don’t know what it takes to have a successful blog. In the archives on my website, entries go as far back as November…
