Love is worth the risk
Once you publish a book or, if you’re fortunate, books, you’re not just creating, you’re running a business. You find yourself with a full complement of tasks that have nothing to do with writing. The sales, customer service, and marketing departments of that business can easily swamp the creative and editorial departments, demanding and getting […]
After a week away visiting Greg’s large extended family and driving nine hours to get home, I awoke this morning someone fatigued and looked at my to-do list. Oh my. Do you have any idea what ten days worth of repeating daily and weekly tasks looks like? In addition this week and last I have […]
Well, who doesn’t? You would think someone who is retired would not distinguish between weekends and, well, Monday. As it turns out, old habits die hard, and, well the rest of the word still works weekdays. While there may have been some easing, Monday is still Monday. Why do I hate it? Plans and […]
Today’s my birthday and my thoughts turn to health and vitality. I told my grandbuddy that I planned to dance at his wedding. Since that is many years away and the plan is to actually dance, I have to make sure I keep moving. For a novelist that is tough sometimes. We live in our […]
Today’s thrilling task is a line by line check of the final manuscript of The Renegade Wife looking for extraneous spaces. My final edit is finished, and I’m more grateful than I can say that a “real” editor will have it next. My story is a wide swath of color in my head full of […]
April is the cruelest, if T.S. Eliot is to be believed, but, dead land not withstanding, I’ll take lilacs. And daffodils and bleeding heart and . . . May landed on us yesterday, and I for one face it with clenched jaw determination to enjoy it if it kills me. The weather ranges from damp […]
No time this Monday to fret about motivation, because this will be one busy week folks. Today I will bury myself in my editing cave. Now that I’m in rough draft I need to make the book sing so I can send it to beta readers. Do you think I can do it by Sunday? […]