In the middle of last month, I passed the six-year mark as a blogger. Wow! While I never doubted it would happen when I started, it is astounding how quickly the time has passed. Over the years, I’ve had readers ask about the ins and outs of writing a blog. Some were simply curious while […]
November is National Novel Writing Month also known as NaNoWriMo. Every year tens of thousands of people from around the world strive to write 50,000 words in 30 days. It is no small feat, to be sure. It takes hours of dedication each day to write an average of 1,667 words to meet the goal. […]
This is NOT a click-bait title. It’s real. It’s true. I really sold my first book! I signed with Wings ePress and the release of my romantic suspense novel is scheduled for March 2022. Mark your calendars. Over the next eight months I plan to share progress reports as I march through the steps toward […]
Being a glutton for punishment, I decided to let National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo as it’s known, kick me in the behind for a second year in a row. And I have to say, it did a darn good job of doing so. But at the end of 30 days, guess what I had? […]
November is NaNoWriMo which stands for National Novel Writing Month. The goal: write 50,000 words in 30 days. That’s 1,667 words per day. And it’s much harder than it sounds. Both last year and this year, less than 12% of those who participated successfully completed the challenge. Even so, millions of words are written by […]
I start drafting nearly all my posts out with some brainstorming notes. What should be included? What shouldn’t? As I brainstormed my first post of 2017, Places I Want to Visit, a second list unexpectedly emerged. The list was quite similar to places I wanted to visit but different enough that the items just didn’t […]






