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NaNoWriMo-Day 2
It is day two of NaNoWriMo and I’m already 1,667 words behind. I will not apologize. I’ve had an especially productive month. I sent out a re-re-re-re-revised draft of my manuscript to agents and have...
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NaNoWriMo Day 7: Showing up
So much of life is about showing up. It is about plunging into cold water, straddling a horse with its own agenda, boarding the bus on the first day of school, or putting your fingers on the keyboard...
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PiBoIdMo Day 9: Kelly Light Drives Through Roadblocks
Reblogged from Writing for Kids (While Raising Them): “This person has no business being in children’s books.” Read that again. Imagine it being said in front of a crowd of over a hundred of your...
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NaNoWriMo Day 28: Perseverance
Okay. Let’s be honest. The NaNoWriMo people should have chosen any month other than November. Why? Veteran’s Day Thanksgiving Pre-December Agent Rejections Responses Yes, I should have written while I...
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Has writing lost its joy?
The other day I went for my first psychic reading and there were many moments during the hour that I was completely blown away by her uncanny knowledge of me and my family. Okay. I know that half of...
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A Winner for the Totally Awesome Teacher/Reader Guide Service! and 3 Tips for...
A super congratulations to Erin Hagar who won the Totally Awesome Teacher/Reader Guide. I happened to know that in addition to being a wonderful writer, Erin is also a wonderful educator. I look...
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Dream Big
Shop Indie Bookstores “[E]xperience has taught me that you cannot value dreams according to the odds of their coming true. Their real value is in stirring within us the will to aspire. That will,...
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MWPA Desire Workshop Gets New Date & Time
Dear Friends, My Maine Writer’s and Publishers Workshop, Desire in Middle Grade and young Adult Novels, has a new date and time. Instead of two three hour sessions we are compacting it into a single...
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MWPA Workshop A Success!
Since my last post there have been a lot of changes in my personal life. Changes that I’m not going to go into here. Suffice it to say they have taken up a lot of my brain and heart space and so...
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