Write This Down

I won't lie to you--for the past to years or so, my ability to write, and to create, has been severely diminished.  That's the prima...

Way back in July-August of this year, I tried my hand at writing a romance novel with elements of mystery and suspense thrown in.   The ...

In the past I have complained about being rejected from both jobs and publishers and receiving either a form letter response, or none at a...

If writing is like exercise and a skill that must be practiced, then I allowed myself to atrophy and weaken in the two months while I took...

Lately I haven’t been writing, for a variety of reasons.   In the interim I have been pitching some of my work to agents and publishers an...

I feel a bit lazy these days.   Scratch that—very lazy.   I have been sending out more and more book queries, but aside from reading I hav...

When I was a kid I didn’t really understand Westerns, but I watched plenty of them—John Wayne, Clint Eastwood, Gary Cooper, Audie Murphy, ...

I got kind of depressed by the lack of a project so I started writing another book.   So far, so good.   I’m also still in the process of ...

It's official--I'm a two-time author.  My book is up digitally and physically on Amazon and I am thrilled.  This has been a really i...

A short five months after I first put pen to paper, my novel is published in paperback form.   It's been an interesting journey, a learn...

Thanks to my wonderful friend Josie, I decided to become a member of the Pinterest community.   I border on being a Luddite sometimes, for a...

Last night I was working on my second novel and it was so odd.  It felt as though my words were coming from somewhere outside myself.  Maybe...

Now that my book is completed and published to Amazon’s eKindle Publisher, I have to figure out an effective method of advertising.   I like...

I have no doubt posted this here before, but my first novel is finally complete.   It took more a month to edit, which is remarkable but not...

I am not sure of the process which other authors use; I can only speak to my experience.  When I write, I find myself immersed in the settin...

When I was in graduate school, I read the excellent book “The Death and Life of Charlie St Cloud” by Ben Sherwood.   Last night I was finall...

I don't often think of myself as a problem solver, but perhaps that's exactly what I am.  I look at things; focus on them, study the...

Throughout my life I have been a pretty horrible procrastinator.   In school I would complete assignments, but not before putting them off t...

I have completed my first novel, Windswept .  While I consider myself a perfectionist and will need to give it yet another read through, it ...

After more than a year of unemployment, self-pity, and a variety of other emotions, I began to realize that I wasn't fully exploiting my...