writing

Which publishing option is best for your book?

The future of publishing is to have connection to readers and the knowledge of what those readers want. Seth Godin I have...

Notes on an Emerging Writer ... it’s begun

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it; Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Writing is...

The Writing Craft: The books to read

“If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.” Stephen King I am an avid reader who...

Writing Rituals

I always wrote as a kid. I used to create stories, with illustrations, in old exercise books. At the end of the school year, I would...

A little quote goes a long way

I am a lover of quotes. I collect them. I use them as a teacher, as a writer, as a mother. I am pretty certain that most people feel the...

Feedback is a writer’s best friend

I am at the stage of my writing where I want my work to be critiqued. Honestly. I am currently looking for readers who sit outside the...

Excuse me, do you mind stepping off my shoulder?

Bottom drawer publishing

I may have invented a new level of drafting a novel. The pre-draft. This is the draft before the first draft. I am currently writing my...