There are very few tools that a writer truly needs. A writing instrument, and her imagination. That is all. But… I hereby pledge true devotion to the writing tool known as Scrivener. I discovered Scrivener a couple of years ago, and, intrigued, bought myself the software for a low price of… well, I don’t remember now, […]
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2015 Writer’s Digest Conference Prep
Packing List for the Writer’s Digest Conference, this coming Friday-Sunday in New York City. In no particular order: 1. A sense of humor to overcome any traveling or hotel-related mishaps 2. Books on my Kindle, podcasts and a new Great Courses on my iPhone for the train ride 3. Cash for tipping and drinks 4. […]
July Book Review
Welcome to the July book review! At the end of each month, I review the books I’ve read. Enjoy! Don’t forget that earlier this month, I did an extra book review post for my July Book Binge. If you didn’t check out that post, take a look before you continue here! The Book: Ready Player One by Ernest […]
The Finish Line: “Just Do it!”
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 many more words than I anticipated; the original 88,000 turned into 116,000. (I’m not quite sure how that […]
July Book Binge
I’d like you all to know that: summer vacation + bronchitis/sinus infection + awesome reading material = reading binge. I finished six books in a little over a week. And as I’m going on vacation next week and intend to read more, I’m sharing these six with you now, so I don’t have to do the […]
July Writing Goals
So here’s something ironic: I’d planned this post for July 1, but I didn’t get it posted in time because I was… working on my July writing goals. (Actually, that’s only half true. I was also binge-reading Elin Hilderbrand’s new book The Rumor. Fantastic summer read. More on that in the July book review.) But […]