November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. Around the States, and even around the world, people are pounding away at their keyboards to draft a full novel in only thirty days. I’ve been writing a novel a month for over a year, but I thought… hey, why not use November as an excuse toContinue reading “The Empty Cup”
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Your Feelings Don’t Matter
Should you only write when you feel like it? Should you await your muse to bring you inspiration from on high? Should you grind every day and force words out of the stone of your heart until you bleed ink? Um… no. Also, if your heart bleeds ink, you should probably get that checked out.Continue reading “Your Feelings Don’t Matter”
Our Five Year Mission…
Last night I sat down for a planning session with my business manager/ wife. We decided to do some long-range goal-setting. Where do we want Dawnsbrook to be in five years? Whoa. So, we’d already talked about all the various plans. We knew we were planning to do a six-book series a year until/unless itContinue reading “Our Five Year Mission…”
More Than Writing
I write most days. I pour time and effort into my books. The craft and making a living off of it is important to me. But there are more important things. I’ve started training to become a CASA. That’s a Court Appointed Special Advocate. Essentially, I am learning how to advocate for children that areContinue reading “More Than Writing”
Brain Not Braining
I’m supposed to be writing. Like, I have an outline. I have a contract even. I know the characters. So why aren’t the words coming? For the last year, I’ve written middle grade fiction. It started with Madelyn of the Sky and its assorted associated short stories. (Those short stories will be collected, likely inContinue reading “Brain Not Braining”
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