One of the greatest challenges writers face is keeping our story material straight and organized. This whacked me upside the head when I started working on my latest project. The book is the fourth book in my Riverbend Saga series. Why am I writing a fourth installment you might ask. I wondered that myself. The…
Like most writers, I spend a lot of time alone applying my craft to the stories calling to me. And, like many people, I can lose myself in my aloneness. This is a good thing when I’m creating. But there are times when it’s not a good thing. I tend to be a loner, private…
God has a will, or a plan, for each of us. Psalm 139:16 (NLT) tells us, You saw me before I was born. Every day of my life was recorded in your book. Every moment was laid out before a single day had passed. Each of us is on this earth for a specific reason….
Many of us have writing quotes to inspire or nag us. Or to nudge us to keep writing. A few of my favorites include: “If my family didn’t want me to write about them, they should’ve behaved better.” Anne Lamott “First, find out what your hero wants, then just follow him!” Ray Bradbury “I love…
One given in the writing world is we will get discouraged. An area where I’ve been discouraged is when a story doesn’t work. My fingers are like stones on the keyboard. What seemed like a great story idea flickers like a dying fire. The plot is what my Italian friends call a frittata. The characters…
2021. A year many of us longed for as 2020 dragged on and on and on. Now it’s here, and I suspect some of us are not all that thrilled with the way it’s started out. And it’s too late to reboot. We’re stuck with it. But that doesn’t mean we’re stuck with our lives….
