I know a lot of people are having a hard time finding their “happy” these days. This has been a year of anger and sadness and fear, and it’s worn us all down. Now that the elections are over (probably) and there is the light of a vaccine at the end of the tunnel, I…
I asked myself this question a few weeks ago. I was dealing with a complete writer’s block, compounded by the mental fog that my bout with coronavirus left me with. I found a number of answers, but it took a while to decide which one mattered the most. I started writing in 2016. How that…
Last month I shared that I’d signed up for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo for short). I’d never done it before, but thought I’d give it a try. So first things first. I WON! (okay, hundreds of thousands of writers did, but I was one of them). I wrote 50,111 words during the month of…
I got a little story for you. The Tuesday before Thanksgiving I released a reader magnet. If you don’t know, that’s a free gift in exchange for an email address. The point is to grow your mailing list. I advertised on social media for weeks. I even had a special group of friends and acquaintances…
In junior high I learned how to type on a Smith-Corona manual typewriter. My mother, a steno clerk, said all women should learn how to type. So I practiced on hers. In my high school typing class we all used Royal manual typewriters. Looking back, I don’t know how that teacher could stand that racket…