Too many characters
With all the re-reading of my old stuff I’ve been doing, I have way too many characters running around in my head. Suddenly, they’re all jockeying for attention. As a r
Banned Book Week
No writer — or reader, for that matter — should let the American Library Association’s Banned Book Week pass without note, so here goes. Censorship has always angered me.
On a roll?
After last night’s good news on my contest final, I got more excellent news this afternoon. One of my writer friends had asked to read “Beauty and the Ballplayer.”
Doing the wrong things?
I’ve been so busy writing on Beth and Cody’s story and thinking of a new title for Bree and Mike’s that I haven’t done any editing on my Golden Heart entrie
Weekend update
Unlike the crew from “Saturday Night Live,” I don’t have a lot to report: I’ve been reading/editing most of the weekend. That means I’ve done no new w
On editing
I wrote this post for the Editor’s Note in the Sept./Oct. issue of the NARWA newsletter, High Country Highlights. However, I liked it too much not to share it here on the b
Handy tool
In preparing “Beauty and the Ballplayer” to send to the friends who’ve volunteered to read it, I found something handy to share. It’s a free service that co
Putting it out there
I know my writer friends are busy — some of them getting ready for the same contest I plan to enter. As such, they’re probably too busy to read anything of mine. (And they
My ambitions are showing
Now that the 2010 Golden Heart winners have been announced (none of them NARWAns, alas), it’s time to start gearing up for the 2011 competition. That is exactly what I’
Not the most productive few weeks
After months of writing like gangbusters and ignoring the healthier lifestyle I’m supposed to be living, I feel the pendulum swinging back in the other direction. My weight l