Man, I wish I’d started blogging daily on day 1. How great would it be to have a public record of the 2020 quarantine? I do have my journal entries, so at least I’ll have something to look...Read More
I’ve been working really really hard to finish editing the fifth draft of The Eugenicist’s Assistant by the end of November. Partly this is in honor of NaNoWriMo, when people all over the ...Read More
Today is the last day of my two-week blogging series. I’m really happy with the results! I set out to write a post every weekday for two weeks, and ended up with 11 posts in 14 days (I wrote an ...Read More
Last Wednesday, I reached the end of Blizzard, draft 1. (For more details about the book’s plot and characters, return to this post.) I was powerfully reminded of the way I felt when I reached t...Read More
The plan was for my novel re-write to be done by the end of June. It wasn’t. The new plan was to finish before I left on vacation this past Monday. I didn’t. To be fair, this draft was m...Read More
Today I have a guest post on bestselling author Laura Vanderkam’s blog about how to practice smarter. The material is gleaned from my experience as a musician and music teacher, and the lessons ...Read More
