Every few months, it wallops me upside the head. What is it, you ask? Nothing good, that’s for sure. It’s the fear that, even after years of writing — and getting a degree in journalism, I still don’t have a clue what I’m doing. The familiar foe hit me again this weekend. My local RWA […]
It’s not Monday, but I finally got around to doing what I said I would: I submitted two queries on “Beauty and the Ballplayer.” Now, I wait … and continue to work on perfecting the GH entries … and write some more on Bethany & Cody’s story. For some reason, I’m finding it hard to […]
One of the goals I set out at our July NARWA meeting was to send at least two queries on “Beauty and the Ballplayer.” Well, it’s still not done, even though the meeting is a week away. What’s stopping me? It’s ridiculous, really. I keep telling myself (rather stupidly) that if I submit a query […]
You often hear writers say their story ideas come from the strangest places. I’m not so sure that’s true. Ideas are all around us … all we have to do is open our eyes (and ears) to the possibilities. The initial idea for “Blind Date Bride” came from a news story I heard on the […]
I wrote this post for the Editor’s Note in the Sept./Oct. issue of the NARWA newsletter, High Country Highlights. However, I liked it too much not to share it here on the blog, too. Since I’m trying to get in edit-mode for the Golden Heart, the subject is dear to me right now. Here goes: […]
Writers have to read, even if it means taking time away from writing to do it. I go through spurts of reading like a madwoman or writing like one. Rarely will I do both at once. My book club just finished “The Help” by Kathryn Stockett. Published in February 2009, it’s the story of three […]
It always amazes me how attending my RWA chapter meeting recharges my creative battery. Sure, it means a long day for me. I usually don’t get to bed until at least 2 a.m., and I’m up before 8 on meeting day. We meet from 10:30-ish to 2 p.m. and drive an hour and a half […]
Sometimes, all it takes is a little shove to get moving again. I received one today, courtesy of one of my NARWA sisters. Jacqui Jacoby was a guest blogger over at Seekerville. The topic? Surviving the Abyss. In it, she told the story of her lost year of productivity, sacrificed to the health gods because […]
A couple of weeks ago, the Ruby Slippered Sisterhood blog (one of my faves) was host to a sometimes heated discussion on safe sex in romance novels. The author of the post, Kelly Fitzpatrick (who you might recognize from yesterday’s post), started the discussion by asking a few questions: “I ask myself, do I write […]
Isn’t that what they call it when you’re doing a lot of thinking but not much writing? 😉 I’ve been mulling the plot of Bethany & Cody’s story (tentatively titled “Trouble in Paradise” … like that hasn’t been used before! Thank goodness titles aren’t copyrighted.). I need to get them out of Chicago and onto […]
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