I’m not going to say much today. I know some of my readers are not Americans, but that’s okay. They have their own days to celebrate their own country and today I’m celebrating mine. I’m thankful to be an America. Yes, we have a host of problems, yes...

Perhaps you have been wondering why I don’t have Facebook, Instagram, or any other of those social media platforms that everyone seems to be using these day? Why do I only have Pinterest (that doesn’t get used much at all) and Goodreads? Here are som...

Kate Willis over at Once Upon an Ordinary stole this tag (but stealing isn’t nice, Kate!) from JessetheReader’s YouTube channel who got this tag from someone else, but I couldn’t find a link for that person, so . . . Kate said anyone could grab it, s...

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So many ideas! So many plots and characters and situations! We are surrounded by story ideas, but sometimes we need something for short stories. What do we do when it seems that everything we think of is complicated, involved, novel length if not a s...

Reading slumps. They aren’t any fun. Especially if you usually enjoy reading. So how do you get out of a reading slump? I’m sure there are many ways, but here are some ideas that might help you. First things first. Reading slumps can come from a numb...

If you have been reading my posts for a while you might wonder if this is going to be a very short post. I’m a pantser. I rarely know where my stories are going when I start them. So, if I write “by the seat of my pants” how in the world do I outline...

Some people have asked me if my stories ever evolve into something different than I was expecting. Or if my stories ever change as I’m writing them. Sometimes they do slightly, other times quite a bit. Did you want to see what the changes for one sto...

I wrote 60k words in one month. That was in March. I’ve never written that much in a month before and didn’t really think I could ever do it. I mean, that’s practically writing an entire novel in a month! That’s just crazy! But I did it. And I learne...

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’...