I’m editing my first book. I wrote the book as well but I’m in the process of editing it and it’s turning out to be far more work than I expected. Over the past 4 years, I wrote a series of dating advice articles on my other blog, Kitten Holiday. Most posts were for women,… Read More It Sounded Like A Great Idea At The Time
This will be my fourth year participating in NaNoWriMo. I’ve never “won” NaNoWriMo but I’ve always learned something from it. What is NaNoWriMo In addition to being a really hard word to say without sounding like you’re drunk, NaNoWriMo is a month-long writing challenge that millions of writers participate in from around the world. It… Read More Tackling My First Novel (for the fourth time)
I’ve never been good at writing plot. This makes me a terrible storyteller. Stories are about plot in action by characters. Without plot you’ve got no action, no story, no nothing. So I’ve heard over and over since I started writing in high school. It’s been twenty years and plots still make me yawn when… Read More Plot, Whatever
When you squeeze your writing into 15 minutes a day, 45 minutes on the weekend if you are lucky, you become very careful with what you write about. All the fluttering ideas and anecdotes that might humor you get shoved to the side. The ideas that aggravate you and have no solution get tossed. You… Read More Write Everything