Almost a week ago, I lost my mother-in-law to ALS, a disease many people know as Lou Gehrig’s disease. It’s a terribly cruel disease that strikes about 5,600 people in the United States each year. The disease is variable by person. Some patients live many years with it. My mother-in-law was diagnosed on her birthday, […]
Here’s another sample of the variety of ridiculous comments I’ve received on the blog lately. It’s obvious they don’t read the blog and I hate, abhor, no detest SPAM. But this does lend a little humor to the situation and it gives me a great subject to post about: #1 POSTED COMMENT: I think one […]
Editing is like a merry-go-round. At first it can be a bit of a thrill, accompanied by a hint of butterflies. But if you stay on the carousel too long… you’re gonna get sick. Aside from editing the voice right out of your work, story fatigue becomes a factor. You get so sick of […]
The beauty of an online writing conference is that you don’t have to physically go anywhere. You can attend via the comfort of your favorite chair or coffee shop. Anywhere you can connect via your laptop or internet enabled device of choice. It’s perfect for those of us with day jobs, as we can attend […]
The other day, while shopping at Publix, I spied a teenager, with her nose in a book as she walked the aisles with her parents. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get close enough to get a good glance at the title. I wondered if it was required reading in English class and whether she was a) behind, […]
Here’s just a sample of the plethora of ridiculousness I’ve received lately: POSTED COMMENT: Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery POSTED BY: http://www.getlaidtonightinfo.com/ MY RESPONSE (in my head of course because I’d never respond to any of these spammers): Check out the URL link. Actually PLEASE don’t. Seriously people. What gives?!?! POSTED COMMENT: Hi there, […]
I needed to find out which South American country was the hottest, in terms of temperature or climate. So I went to my favorite search engine, Google, and typed in the following: hottest South American country Here are my less than helpful results: In case you can’t read the small print, the majority of the […]
Aye! My TBR pile runneth over. At the moment – it’s a bit overwhelming. Here’s the stack of freebies from RWA. And here are two other piles that I haven’t gotten to yet. That’s a total of thirty books!! 1.7333 books per week if I don’t add any more books to the pile for […]
I’ve been figuratively tugging my hair out trying to write a synopsis for THE NOVEL. I need to condense a four-hundred page novel into two pages. How in the heck do you do such a thing? I spent hours Googling and studying resources from various sources. (BTW – RWA University has a really thorough transcript […]
I’m headed to NYC for RWA Nationals. This will be my first conference and I am excited to learn tons from the workshops and get to meet some fabulous like-minded writerly types. I’m also looking forward to putting a face with a lot of folks I’ve met virtually in classes and through various online writing […]
