I’ve gotten in a bad habit of leaving my phone in the car or letting the batter run out for days.  Has gotten me in some trouble with family.  I’ve never actually been one to talk on the phone, so it’s more of a life long habit.  After all, I’m a writer, not a speaker.  [...]

Okay, I actually started this week’s whine on Tuesday, just one day after last week’s whine, when I woke up from a nap realizing I was iron and B12 anemic, again. I forced myself into an adrenalin rush to get my index cards done and suffered the rest of the week as a result of [...]

Pardon me for a moment while I use my blog as a pseudo-psychologist. This morning I tweeted, “Is it really the 20th of January already?” That’s nearly 2/3 of the first month of the new year and I’ve accomplished next to nothing after the holidays…ARGH!! Okay, maybe it’s not that bad. I have rewritten the [...]

I heard something depressing today from some other writers. They are in the opinion that the first one or two novels you write are likely crap. They also mentioned that it takes writing one million words to begin mastering prose. Where did I hear this? A friend told me about Writing Excuses, an audio blog [...]