#4 Daughter and fellow-author, Sara Marian, and I love doing writing exercises. Back when we had time, we would schedule an entire weekend together for a mini-retreat, and do one exercise after another. We ended up with some pretty good stuff from them. One of…
There are many reasons why I stop reading, and they sort of have a pecking order. Why I stop reading on the first page: If the grammar, punctuation, and spelling are poor (unless they’re obviously supposed to be), I stop reading. If the style is…
That’s what I’m doing this year. I’ve “won” NaNo several years, ending up with a bunch of rough drafts that I’ve been too busy to finish. So, this year, I’m Taming the Wild NaNo: taking one of those manuscripts and finishing it. I posted an…
