I’d never heard of BIW until last week when I learned that two online friends had participated in this community set up for writers to state their writing goals and report daily on their progress. I can imagine it’s a powerful aid to developing a writing discipline, a great incentive to set up monthly writing …Read More

You all know how much I love to talk about first sentences. I’m at it again, mostly because I’ve made the first pass through my WIP to change the point of view in about eight chapters, and now I’m doing the fine tuning on the first chapter. This is the deep, deep revision where I …Read More

First of all, let me remind everyone that tomorrow is guest blogger day, and guess who’s stopping by… Let me give you a hint–the schedule is over there in my sidebar. Yep, Terry Odell is going to tell you how she happened to become a writer. As you’d expect, Terry took one of those less-traveled …Read More

I’m addicted to things I don’t want to give up: 1. Books2. Coffee3. Chocolate Luckily, these addictions are not terribly harmful, unless I indulge too frequently. I’m doing okay on the coffee and chocolate, but the book collection is growing out of control (again). I’ll take this weekend as an example. In addition to the …Read More