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Inspiration From Master Writers: a guest post by DeAnn Smith
I write hundreds of words daily for my day job. Writing for a news outlet and novel writing have similarities but significant differences. I spent two decades growing my craft as a journalist. I...
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Monday Blog Game: Writing as Craft
I didn’t originally realize that writing was a craft. I thought writing meant “telling stories.” My first completed manuscript attempted to tell a story I made up – the fictional history of Borte Ujin,...
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Introducing: The Random Penguin
This week, I have a house guest: THE RANDOM PENGUIN! Random is a friend of my friend (and fellow author) Kerry Schafer, whose debut fantasy novel, BETWEEN, debuts this week. (And by “this week,” I mean...
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Tasty Summer Reads: Claws of the Cat
Thanks to fellow historical fiction author Kim Rendfeld (author of THE CROSS AND THE DRAGON) for tagging me in the Tasty Summer Reads Blog Hop! Here’s how it works: Each participating author invites...
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Monday Blog Game: Music!
Today marks the return of the Monday Blog Game – I’ll pick a topic at random, and if you want to play along, feel free to leave a comment with a link to your post (if the spam filter traps it, don’t...
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A Little Monday Pillow Talk
Writing novels is like breaking in a pillow. You pick out a story, fresh and new, from the rows of similar stories piled high on your mental shelf. Some start out harder, others squishy, and some seem...
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What Do YOU Love?
Now that 2015 is upon us, I’m returning the Monday Blog Game – a place where I blog on a prompt and invite anyone and everyone who sees it to do the same. Today’s prompt: What do you love? The irony of...
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Monday Blog Game: Writing as Craft
When I first started writing, I didn’t realize that writing was a craft. At first, I thought writing meant just “telling stories.” My first completed manuscript attempted to tell a story – the...
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What Good is a Writing Retreat? And What Should You Look For?
I blog a lot about conferences, and the benefits a good conference provides to writers. Writing retreats are like mini-conferences, and offer their own set of benefits. Retreats are smaller than...
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Culling the Herd…And Finding Myself in the Pages
I love books. This probably comes as no surprise, considering that my two “day jobs” involve writing them and working with people who write (and publish) them. What might surprise you — it surprised...
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