This site is called Shepard: Discover the Best Books. I have only just learned of it. They asked if I would like to share my favorite books, and I jumped at the chance. What a great way to find books written with the ideas you most like to see in what you read! How…
I have read A Tale of Two Cities numerous times and have made notations up and down the margins north, south, east and west. The reading of it always mesmerizes me with the detail and development of character, setting and connection, of what has gone and what is to come. “Do you particularly like the…
So I crawled into bed, prepared to settle in quietly and not wake my husband. I shut my eyes and then they opened again. I did not post my Wednesday post. So I roll off the bed, body lengthwise, (learned that trick while very pregnant; it doesn’t shake the bed at all) and out the…
Since this is my first time having a blog, I have decided that Wednesday will be my scheduled blog day. I still may enter other posts, but once a week I will definitely post. Since writing is my focus for this blog, my posts on Wednesday will always relate to publishing and improving writing. Smashwords.com…
When I decided in the spring of this year to go through my books gathering digital mothballs, I knew I was going to have to find a way to visualize the plot better than I had in the past. I tried to think of ways to use my word processing software but could not think…
I got sidetracked by blogging, and I think I let it happen on purpose. Today I uploaded my first book (In Times Passed) to Smashwords. It was one of the most exciting things I have ever done. Researching blogging let me settle into the fact that my book was now available. I have been redrafting…
I decided to go ahead and dive into blogging. I had no idea how to go about it, so with Robert Lee Brewer’s post on writers and when they should start blogging under my belt, I proceeded to run in circles on the site for awhile, an hour maybe. I am not certain of the…
