I’m sure most of us have wondered from time to time why we bother trying to get published.  Aren’t we just setting ourselves up for disappointment?  Aren’t we spending hours and hours writing for nothing? I’ll admit, there have been moments of weakness when I have asked myself those very questions.  Wouldn’t it just be easier to put my writing tools away and do something with a more immediate return and less chance of failure?  Almost as soon as I ask myself something silly like that, I realize how foolish a thought it is.  I don’t write because I expect to make lots of money and gain buckets of glory.  Sure that would be nice but it isn’t my reason […]

I wanted to take a few moments today to talk about my current work-in-progress… or maybe I should say, my former work-in-progress since I finished the first draft on Saturday with a final count of 29, 514 words. I’m not foolish enough to think that it’s done, not by a long shot, but the goal of writing it is done.  It took me a month longer than I had planned but I’m very happy with the results.  My daughter, who is also a first reader on the book, read it yesterday and said she loved it.  While she might be biased, she rarely says anything like that unless she means it.  She also peppered the document with many helpful comments. […]

I don’t know about you but I like to schedule things.  Maybe it’s because I have so much going on I need a plan to fit it all in or maybe I’m just getting absent-minded and I need the reminder.  I AM busy so I’m going to go with the former rather than the later. Regardless, I’m finding that I need to start scheduling days for my blogging and my writing or it just isn’t going to get done.  First, the blogging. When I was part of StartingWriteNow I was assigned a day of the week to post.  There were usually five of us putting our thoughts out so it made sense to do it that way; it prevented us […]