What prompts you on a normal day? What has taken you out of your comfort zone (but you’re still safe)? If you look at your…
Category: writing
Posts about writing, the writing process, and writer stories
As I prepare my short story collection for 2021 publication, the hardest of all tasks is turning out to be which stories to remove from…
Self-publishing a novel, the 2020 checklist edition: ISBN for paperback (owned, or free from pubs site like Amazon) ISBN for e-book (“) barcode for paperback…
Although I have tried, on multiple occasions, to get this Halloween poem completed, it is missing something. Until I can sort it out, and because…
When preparing a WIP (work in progress) for publication, an important part of the process is sending the WIP off to another human being who…
A novel isn’t really finished until the blurbs are written, the content files uploaded for ebook and paperback, and the cover(s) uploaded. Just because I’ve…
My mother often talked about her book. She would write it, she said to me. In her mind, she knew the parts of the story,…
Two Wednesdays per month, our local writers’ group meets online. We used to meet in person, but, you know, pandemic. During our online meetings, each…
Unreal Estate: This was going to be a short story, I thought. Instead, thousands of words poured out describing a rambling mansion where nothing happens,…
Pareidolia Everywhere she looked, she saw faces looking back. Faces of crows in tree branches. Human eyes peering from shadows. Animal-like movement in branches swaying…