Yesterday was my birthday. I wanted to do something fun, like a tag! I found this one on Kate Willis’s delightful blog, and since it looked fun, I decided I’d grab it.. Count your birthday along your bookshelf and then subtract your birth month. Whic...

Writing. A lot of that happened last month. Actually, I wrote about 3 months worth of words just last month. Yep, I was able to get 60,000 words written in March. That’s about as many words as are in a Triple Creek Ranch book! But no, I didn’t write...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-4, Issue 1From the Editor's Desk:Spring! The sun is shining and all is quiet this morning. We don't have the windows open yet as I think it might still be in the 50s. I am starting this before breakfast as I have plans for to...

You have stacks of books to read. Library books. TBR books that never seem to go away. There are beta books, ARC copies to read and review, and yet . . . Life is busy! So busy! How do you find time to read too? Today I’d like to share some tips about...

There are so many different authors that I like. Some are modern, many are not. Some have only written a few books while others have written almost a hundred. There are authors who write just one genre, and there are others who write different genres...

Sometimes you just need a quick read. One that is clean, fun, exciting, and satisfies the desire to get a book read. Enter Fast Food Books. There’s nothing wrong with such books. I enjoy them, but sometimes too much of them is like eating too much fa...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-3, Issue 2From the Editor's Desk:Good morning! It's a cloudy morning here. I've been busy with Writing Camp, and more writing camp. And this, that, and the other. I was going to write last Saturday, but forgot Sarah and I had...

Dear Readers, Here I am at camp once again. I seem to be here quite a lot, don’t I? Maybe I should consider building a permanent house on the grounds so I can stop packing and unpacking only to pack again. Imagine living on 700 acres with mountains a...

Happy March!I'm writing to you from the virtual camp grounds of KDWC where words are being turned out in steady numbers by some campers, crazily rapid numbers by others, and just slow trickling by others. All those add up to over a million words writ...

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...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-3, Issue 1From the Editor's Desk:I need to get things done.Weather Report:Spring. Sunshine. Rain. Flowers blooming. Things turning green."Genius Burns":Yes. 16k words this week. Usual is 5k in a week. New story. Eeek!Project...

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...

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...

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...

Joplin Journal Volume 12-2, Issue 2From the Editor's Desk:The sun is shining this morning and the wind is blowing though not as strong of gusts as yesterday. We're back to winter today. Such crazy weather we have here. This might be a shorter journal...