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…
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…
Word Trackers – A Good Thing or Not?
50,000 Words and Counting! I did it! For the third year in a row I managed to get down 50,000 words on my next novel,…
I love to read, but not during National Writing Month
I love to read. In fact, I don’t just love it– I am compelled to read. I read everything. If there is a newspaper in…
Fast Drafting My Way to The End of NaNoWri
My first novel, written as a respite from working on my dissertation, took me five years to write. My second novel took seven years to…
I Am Ready to Write Within the Skin!
Ready. Set. Go. Starting tomorrow I will begin working on Book 3 in the Skin Quartet series Within the Skin. This is the romantic suspense love…
All Fired Up for NaNoWri: How I’m getting ready
NaNoWri or National Novel Writing Month starts on Tuesday. This will be my third year participating. I don’t know why, but somehow tracking words and…