May 3, 2026
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Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!
A reflection on 2020 would be perfectly normal this time of year, but let me be the one to say it: I’d really rather not. Writing-wise, 2020 wasn’t such a bad year. I found a fantastic beta partner, grew my writing ability greatly, read some amazing books (both fiction and on the craft), and completed…
I was recently reached out to by someone about being accountibility partners. While I have always loved the concept, and I know I NEED to be held accountible, it is…daunting. Scary. The very first thing is figuring out what goals I have that I want to be held to. Having goals means making things real….
When he returned to the tree, he called up to her. “I have food!” he shouted. “Toss down the rope!” As he left, he had thrown the rope back up over the branch. Now, he bounced on the balls of his feet while he waited for her to send it falling to him. It did…
The querying process is, I’m sure you know, a waiting game. This is fine – I have a full time job this year that takes up a great deal of my time, along with writing projects and children to keep me plenty busy. But it isn’t all quiet. While I have not gotten a full…
As of today, I have officially started the query process to find an agent for my debut novel. What is life?! I haven’t submitted anything to anyone since I was 17 and thought I could do no wrong. I submitted a terrible novel with no beta reads and only my own editing directly to a…
My first novel is almost ready. It is written, edited, read, and edited more. I have written and rewritten, cut and added, and sweat over the whole thing. It is almost ready. Almost is such a huge word. I have been debating whether to publish via traditional publishers or to go the self-publishing route, and…
Frozen. The day before, I had so much optimism. Hope. I was going to go, find a tribe, and meet new people. Make new friends. I could close my eyes and envision that, by lunch, I would have found a few people that I could eat and talk and connect with. Then I arrived. The…
A big step toward becoming an author is education. I am not a person who is ever going to say a college degree or formal education is necessary to he an author, but that doesn’t mean there are not things to learn. How to publish. How to market. How to handle the stress and the…
“If you want to publish, then at some point we’re going to read it.” Yep. Oh goodness, yep. I was at lunch with friends, and we were talking about my writing. More specifically, we were talking about why they had never read my writing. It has been years since I have shared my writing with…
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