Oh, the weather outside is frightful But the tale inside’s delightful! And since we’re so erudite Let us write, let us write, let us write! ‘Tis the season for holidays and gifts and snowfalls. We just emerged from a powerful storm, and are facing more as we approach the new year. The ski areas are…
Author: Janet Lane
Janet Lane’s Coin Forest novels have earned #1 Amazon bestselling status in the medieval romance genre. She also writes contemporary women’s novels. Her novels have received international awards (IPPY, INDIE, EVVY) and the HOLT Medallion. She served as an editor for RMFW’s anthology, Broken Links, Mended Lives, which was named a finalist in the Colorado Book Awards. She recently released her author-narrated audiobook, Etti’s Intended, and is working on her sixth book in the Coin Forest series.
Medieval Viagra and the Curtain of Time
When writing historical novels I find myself as immersed in research books as I am with the writing. Research is one of life’s joys to me. It’s like stepping through a sparkling curtain into the past, and suddenly I’m in another time. If it’s during the nineteenth century, it’s a world in sepia, that soft…
Real Writers Write – a plan for us NaNoWriMo holdouts
Inspired by the RMFW conference, my critique partners and I are participating in a writing challenge this fall. In an effort to develop the daily writing habit, we declare our intentions, much as the NaNoWriMo participants do. We challenge ourselves with so many words a week or so many pages a week, with a goal…
50 Shades of Happy: How an RMFW “Failure” panel brought this topic home
Welcome to the third installment of my happiness series. If you’re just joining us, you can read the first two installments: The Happiness Advantage – To write better novels, lighten up! The Happiness Advantage – Don’t set a goal without it! As promised, I’ll ask, did you try the “Three Acts of Gratitude” exercise? The…
The Happiness Advantage – Don’t set a goal without it!
Last month we explored the topic of happiness, and how we can regain the joy of writing we felt when we first started writing. We can boost happiness by establishing a few simple daily habits–very important, because we can think best when we’re happy. Because we naturally store negative events in a deeper, more permanent…