I’m very excited to announce that I’ve joined The Writer Diaries as a contributor! I’ll be posting a couple of blogs a month on writing, in addition to my posts here. We also host weekly chats every Tuesday at 9:00 p.m. Follow @WriterDiaries or watch #TWDTopic to join us. This blog will focus a bit […]
A week after I posted my 2014 wrap-up, I thought maybe it was time to share my goals for 2015. I do this partially because when I went to see if I hit my 2014 goals, I realized I never wrote them down. (I rewrote an entire MS, wrote and polished a second, drafted a […]
Last week, I found myself completely stuck on a scene I needed to add to my work in progress. In order to distract myself, I sent out a tweet, suggesting we write the scene by committee. And, here’s what I got from the Amazing Twitterverse (mixed up a bit): Why? Because sometimes, when you’re […]
The past 365 days have absolutely flown by, in large part due to some really amazing things that happened. When January 2013 arrived, I was alone in my publishing journey, with no one but my very closest friends having any idea I’d decided to write a book. I’d never heard of QueryTracker or Critique Partners. […]
There, I’ve said it. No, I’ve proclaimed it! “Using the word said over and over is boring!” She shouted from the rooftops. “Using said over and over is boring!” She ejaculated. (We should really go back to using this more.) They say it’s OK to break the rules once you know and understand them, and […]
I’m taking a day off from the usual blogging (I might go crazy and take a whole week). I hope you all find some lovely things in store under your tree. May anyone who needs to go to the store on Christmas Eve find parking. And may you find time to watch the greatest Christmas […]
This is a conversation I’ve had with several people over the last few months, including querying writers and my agent. Some people may look at the title of this post and say “Does it matter? My agent can figure it out.” Now, that may or may not be true (my agent is going to want […]
I never intended for this to be solely a writing blog, and one of my goals for 2015 is to blog more things of interest to non-writers, too. Last week, in a fit of exhaustion, I created a blog that was nothing but pictures of my kitties – and it got more views/comment than most […]
To my Critique Partners, I love you ladies. No, really. I love you. You are worth your weight in chocolate. You make me laugh until my sides hurt. When I’m down, you pick me up. I don’t even have to be down about writing-related stuff. When I’m up, you celebrate with me. You write beautiful […]
I’m afraid I didn’t have time to write a blog post today, so here are some pictures of my cats. Everyone loves cat pictures, right? When we first got them, kitties were scared of the new house. All our friends said, “We need pictures!!!” They didn’t believe I couldn’t get a decent shot. So, here’s […]
When I was looking for new blog topics, someone suggested I talk about the importance of a writing space. This is a fairly timely and important topic for me right now. As I may have mentioned roughly 637,000 times on Twitter, my husband and I moved into a new house at the end of November. […]
December ’tis the season of many wonderful things… including SFFPit, PitMad, and PitchMas. I don’t really have much to say about the holidays (Except that I like sugar cookies and fudge. Please send me some), so let’s talk about Twitter pitch parties. I love a good party. They just got requests from their dream agents. […]