Organize and De-Clutter Your Writing Zone
~ Make It Beautiful! ~ Organizing is something you do before you do something, so when you do it, it is not all mixed up….
Focus on Writing: Discovering Flow
~ Becoming a Focused Writer ~ Being able to focus is always an issue for a creative writer. No one is telling you what story…
My 2019 New Year Resolutions: A Dozen Hopes
 ~A Dozen Hopes for 2019 ~ Time to make those 2019 New Year Resolutions. I have a long tradition of making New Year’s Resolutions. I…
12 Things I am Thankful for: A Writer’s List of Thankfuls
~ What I am Thankful For ~ On this Thanksgiving Day, I thought I would make a list of all the things I am thankful…
W-Plot Your Way to a Better Scene
~ Plot Your Scene with the W-Plot Method ~ The W-Plot can be used to lay out an entire novel, but it’s true strength is…
What Makes You Want to Read a Book?
~Does Books+Main Have the Right Idea? ~ There are a whole bunch of e-book sales listing services out there – Bookbud, Fussy Librarian, Rifle, E-Reader…
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Winning an Award
~ Are you more likely to read a book that has won an award? ~ This week my romantic suspense Close to the Skin is…
What Verb is Your Character? Actioning for Writers
~ I ________ you ~ I was very fortunate to have the chance to hear Damon Suede speak at the New Jersey Romance Writers Conference…
Fifteen Minutes Writing – The Book Factory Method
~ Life in Fifteen Minutes ~ Do you know how much time you spend on daily activities like reading e-mail and perusing Facebook? Do you…
Book Review: Romancing the Beat
~The Path of True Love ~ I truly believe that the best way to learn to be a writer is to be a voracious reader….
Visionary Goals – a Place to Start
~ Why I Start with Visionary Goals ~ In my last post, I talked about how I set up my writing journal. In this post…
My Writing Journal – How I Start off the New Year
~ Start with a Journal ~ The beginning of a new year is always a good time to review what one has accomplished and to…