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’...
Sometimes you just need a good quote to remind you of something. Or to encourage you. . . . The essence of writing . . . is not putting words on the page but learning to recognize and erase the unnecessary ones . . . Robert and Michèle Root-Bernstein...
Dear Readers, Here it is, camp time again! I’m writing to you from Tentalizing Tales where I have 15 campers. We’ve written and chatted and sprinted and eaten snacks, and encouraged each other. But overall it’s been a pretty quiet tent this time. I t...
There are many book series. Some are more popular and others are not. I thought it would be fun to have a series about book series and share some of these with you all. The Accidental Cases of Emily Abbott by Perry Elisabeth Kirkpatrick Overview:Emil...
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...
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...
