writing

A Quarter of a Million Words, and I’m Still Feeling Like a Slacker?

October is almost over. I can’t believe how crazy it’s been. When it started, I had pie in the sky plans for finishing my third Legally in Love novel, and I was off to a running start, about 45,000 words in ten days. Yay! And then… for the next three weeks, not even 100 words […]

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Alaskan Wilderness…

I had a little coincidence hit me today, or tender mercy of the Lord today, if that’s how you like to look at things. It’s how I see it.  Today I was invited to a political luncheon. Nice, right? Yeah, but some days you just don’t want to go. Some days when you’re a writer, […]

Solution to Writer’s Block: Hitting the Books

Sometimes I feel like the well is just dry. Dessicated. A desert inside my soul. Such was the case at the beginning of February. I’d written almost 100K words over the past 9 months, and it was just–I was empty. Enter: the ANWA Conference bookstore. There I purchased about 10 books written by lovely and […]

Writers Conference Top Ten #ANWACon15

Writers Conference Top Ten #ANWACon15

It’s over. Once again, the ANWA Conference has come to an end. I’m always totally saturated with new knowledge and completely wiped out by Saturday afternoon and dying to get home to sleep, but by Monday morning I’m wishing I was back there again. I’m just going to make an abridged list, a top ten list, […]