Scenes scurry about in my mind. I am ready to sit down and write, but I cannot. There is grading to do and house cleaning and time to respond to a child’s needs and a husband’s desire to chat and then of course this blog. So when do I write? I tell myself that this…
magnifying the audience So here I am writing to an empty theater. Not certain what I will do when people are actually reading this blog. Hopefully, this will not be the first post they see. In any case, I sit here writing and thinking about the ghost audience sitting out there. I see one lady…
Usually when I am working on a story, I find a quiet place to relax and see what comes to mind. But lately, since I started jogging on a treadmill, I have found that running along thinking about the story currently at hand will lead to inspiration. Just yesterday I was running along, and a…
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…
