Two Months
Please read this essay by my talented friend Karla, aka K. J. Klemme, author of Tourist Trapped.
Gatsby and Goosebumps
If you're a regular visitor to my blog, you know I haven't been keeping up with it lately. I've worked on my manuscript and also prepared for school. I was in rather a funk about losing my writing time and having to return to the classroom. When I started the new...
What Outlander Taught Me about Writing
Three weeks ago I dove headlong into my newest book and read with abandon. I've done little else since then. I barely noticed what was going on around me because, once again, I was living in the 18th century with Jamie and Claire Fraser. I'm sure most of you have...
Hello Faith!
My muse just dropped in to say hello, and I mean that literally! I was sitting at my desk getting ready to write, but as sometimes happens (at least to me) I was dawdling on Pinterest, a favorite activity that sometimes yields productive ideas. Not today, however....
10 Reasons I Love Summer
In the summer months I revel in the weather, my writing, and the freedom of not answering to a schedule dictated by bells. I realize as I write this my family down in Georgia is sweltering with the heat index ranging between 105 -110, and I must say I don't miss that...
A Sign of the Times
Yesterday I ran some errands downtown. In Waupaca, a town of just over 5,000 people, we are very lucky to have a thriving Main Street with almost everything we need offered by local merchants here and in the surrounding area, no Walmart or other large big box...
Pantster or Plotter? Maybe Both
I've started a new writing project! It has been a long time since I thought I had a viable idea, but now I think I do. At least I hope so. I've spent the morning researching my idea and can't find anything that remotely addresses my topic! My trouble is that when I...
The Book Blogger Test
I follow a blog by Jodie Llewellyn. She is a wonderful writer and blogger. If you don't know about her blog, you should check it out. For a post the other day she answered the questions to the book blogger test from a blog she follows called Brin's Book Blog. She...
One Day
Southerners have an identity. They are the land they grew up on. Heat and gnats and flowers and rain live in them. Place defines them. It is as much a part of them as their DNA. They are connected to the land like Scarlet O'Hara was. My own family is the same. We have...
An Ugly four Letter Word: “Busy”
Lately I've been trying to squeeze social media time in between all the other things that press me throughout the day. Connecting in the early morning before work keeps my screen time to a minimum as long as I don't get lost somewhere reading articles on...