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2021, An Interesting Year (Part One)

2021, An Interesting Year (Part One)

Hey friends! It has been a long time since I last wrote to you, and I’ve missed writing and your comments! I will do better this year, I promise. With everything going on last year, I have not had the chance to process the year, which I usually do through...
THE END Is Near

THE END Is Near

I’m near the end of my manuscript…again. Several years ago, I completed the original manuscript, work-shopped it at a conference, revised it with two other writers, and started the query process to find an agent. So this is the second time I’ve...

The Pitch

Last year I took some time off writing this blog to concentrate on finishing my novel. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve re-written the first few chapters, but I know I’ve done at least five revisions of the entire book. I’m preparing for...

Nature Feeds the Muse

“Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty. It expands through successive stages of the beautiful to values as yet uncaptured by language.” ― Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There My life this week has been...

My Writer Birthday

    Last Tuesday was my writer birthday. It was the first day of investing in myself in pursuit of a full-time writing life! Mind you, I’m still in the throes of post school year fatigue and would like to do little other than sleep, but my “sea...