Nov 8, 2016 | The Writing Life
Hello dear readers, Rather than driving myself completely mad, I’m going to take a brief hiatus from blogging during NaNoWriMo. I’m still responding and returning blog visits from my last two posts, so if you haven’t heard from me yet, rest assured...
Nov 2, 2016 | The Writing Life
As many of you know by now, I’ve decided to take the next three years off to focus on fiction. By remortgaging my house and putting my successful freelance career on hold, I’ll finally be able to chase my dream of being a full-time novelist. When I first...
Oct 5, 2016 | The Writing Life
Or, Going all the Way Part II. Some of you may have read my IWSG post from August, where I announced my intentions to put my hectic freelance career on hiatus and focus on writing fiction full-time. This plan required the support of my credit union, as I’d hoped...
Aug 3, 2016 | The Life Less Ordinary, The Writing Life
One question has made me more insecure than any other. “How’s the writing going?” The reason this seemingly benign question used to fill me with horror is simple. How was my writing going? Most of the time, it wasn’t. Not that I wasn’t...
Mar 29, 2016 | The Writing Life
This weekend I posted an article on my Facebook page that caused a bit of an uproar. For some reason, people are just now discovering an article Dwight Allen wrote for Salon in 2012. Calling himself a “literary snob,” Allen wages a full-on attack...
