And I Quote . . .

Writing Camp has started and I don’t have a lot of time, and many of my readers should be busy writing to, so I’ll keep today’s post simple. “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” ― Stephen...

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Mar 12, 2024
How to Become a Nuthead – Interview

If you haven’t been to Writing Camp before, you may not have heard of the Nutheads. These are girls who write crazy amounts of words in one day. To become an official Nuthead, it is required that you write at least 17k words in one day. Most of us at...

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Mar 05, 2024
Reading Challenge Update

It’s been almost two months since the 2024 Read Another Page Reading Challenge started and I thought I’d give you an update on how I was doing. First off, I’m not speeding though this challenge as I did one year. I’m also not crawling through it. I h...

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Feb 27, 2024
New Camp Journal!

After feedback and comments and suggestions and thoughts, I finally did it. I created a brand new writing camp journal! I wanted a journal that would last a full year of camps, one that had enough of the trail trackers, but not a full page to journal...

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Feb 20, 2024
Valentine’s Day Treats

I wish I could give you all some chocolate or flowers, but since virtual chocolate and virtual flowers just aren’t the same, I had to come up with something else. What’s the next best thing? Books! So today and tomorrow I have some books on sale or f...

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Feb 13, 2024
Why I Publish Short Stories

I write and publish a lot of stories, novels, and novellas. I actually have over 90 published titles, which is rather crazy when I think about the fact that I hated writing in school. But that’s beside the point of today’s post. You might be wonderin...

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Feb 06, 2024
5th Tuesday – Pet Peeves Part 1

There are some things that irritate me a little when I read. And there are some things that bug me a bit. And there are other things that drive me crazy and might mean I rant to someone about them even if I liked the rest of the book. So this year I’...

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Jan 30, 2024
Getting Over a Blank Page

How do you start writing? How do you get from that blank page to a page with words on it? You have your ideas, you have considered all sorts of things, and now you are ready to write. But how? You have opened that blank document and that little blink...

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Jan 23, 2024
Spam  Part 3

I have a few more spam stories to share with you. I hope you enjoy them. My responses are in color and the spam are in black. Hello, With all due respect. Hello. I don’t want to be rude about it, but my name really isn’t “With all due respect”. If yo...

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Jan 16, 2024
Clean Your eBooks!

It’s the start of a new year. It’s time to get things cleaned up and organized. There’s one thing that often gets neglected and today I’m going to challenge you to clean that area. Ready? Let’s get started! Got your broom and dustpan ready? Perhaps a...

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Jan 09, 2024