Great news!

First off, I’ve had at least half a dozen ideas for posts pop into my head over the past week but I’ve been way too busy to blog. At least that’s my excuse. I’m sure I’ll be posting about the Storymakers conference for a while as I review...

Taking my own sweet time

Can I just say that I love Wikipedia? Yes, yes, I’ve had plenty of other writers tell me what an amazing site it is, and how it’s one of their favorite resources. Did that make me run right out and learn for myself? No, of course not. I have to learn...

No, the sky isn’t falling. I’m still here.

It seems every time I turn around, I’m learning about some other aspect of writing in which I’m not quite coming up to scratch. On the last manuscript I submitted, I was told the exposition was completely out of control. When I started looking it over, I...

Special Delivery

I’ve been MIA for the past month, I know. There have been several interesting things going on since I last blogged. We delivered babies in our most recent EMT class. A local doctor sat on the other side of the mannequin and pretended to be the mother as he tested us...

NaNoWriMo Anyone?

If you’ve never heard of NaNoWriMo, you haven’t been in the writing business for long. (Not that everyone who is in the ‘writing business’ is actually in the ‘publishing business’—me for example—but that’s another story.) November is National Novel Writing Month and...