Can you believe March is nearly gone? Maybe it doesn’t feel possible because we’ve spent so much time over the past three months responding to weather events and longing for spring. Well, spring is on the doorstep, and she’s bringing flowering surprises around each corner, spiders intent on finding indoor homes, and a lawn full […]
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Looking Forward to 2015 Inspiration
It’s a Happy New Year! I don’t know about you, but I’m looking forward to an inspired 2015, filled with new projects and adventures in writing. There’s a fresh feel to these first days of the new year, and I hope that continues for a long time. It’s always exciting to me to reach a […]
Putting the Shine on a Brand New Year of Writing Fun
Each year at this time I ask if you’ve begun to set your writing goals for next year. And I know to some of you the mere thought of planning and scheduling your dreams sounds like the biggest drag in the universe. And it can be. Your past experiences may range from boring, to painful, […]
Anticipating Cold Creativity
Summer’s nearly gone. Around here the community swimming pools are closing, coinciding with the start of a new school year. Sure, there are a handful of places holding out until Labor Day weekend. But there’s already a sensation of change, of moving away from warm-weather activities, and preparing for the new season. Various projects that […]
When Detours Lead Us Home
If it seems I’m having a hard time staying focused this year, that’s because I am. While I’m not sure where the problem lies, I’ve been thoroughly frustrated with the situation. Maybe it’s because I’m working on too many things at once. I’ve mentioned that before. And yet, I’ve only wiped one project off my […]
Make Mine a Writing Holiday
I seem to be in the spirit of the long, slow weekend—already. Last night I finished my comments for a Beta read of a friend’s novel at 0230. Yes, I was supposed to be writing and posting to my own blog yesterday. But I was in the flow and wanted to get my comments to […]
6 Ways to Spring into New Writing Energy
If you live in the northern hemisphere, you’re probably more than eager to see the last cold winds of winter blow away. And if there’s not another flake of snow for the next six months, your feelings won’t be hurt. It’s been a long, cold, dreary winter around here. But the advent of spring brings […]
Grateful to be a Writer Today
Let’s start with the fact that I’ve been trying to write this post for the last three days. I hate to admit it, but I haven’t been feeling inspired this week. It might be a letdown of emotion from the events of the past couple of weeks, but there was nothing I really wanted to […]
New Technology on the Way
Oh, no. Sorry. Not some stunning breakthrough to benefit the whole world. This new technology is my new laptop which will replace this one on which I’m writing this post. Why? Because blue screens are no fun, even if they only give a message about “inconsistencies” and then fix themselves. So, because I need to […]