Please welcome our new Blog contributors, Ann Gordon and Maggie Smith. We’re looking forward to some great articles from them! Ann Gordon is a former English and Computer Science teacher, a technical writer, copy editor and instructional designer. She has a B.A. in English and a Masters in Computer Science. She’s currently semi-retired and trying…
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Finnegan Begin Again
Back in the 80s, Mary Tyler Moore and Robert Preston starred in an HBO rom-com that has mostly faded into history. In it the main character – a writer named Mike Finnegan – has to begin again. He’s assigned to write the advice column for his newspaper (remember them?) and learns that people have to…
NaNoWriMo
This month is NaNoWriMo, For those of you scratching your head, that’s National Novel Writing Month (https://www.NaNoWriMo.org) a non-profit with only one goal – to goad you, encourage you, and praise you into kick-starting your next book. How? It’s a simple premise – commit to writing 50,000 words, starting November 1st and writing at least…
Getting Better All The Time
What’s your plan for getting better at writing? Do you have a plan? Or are you going to write another novel that’s sort of like the last novel you wrote … and hope for the best? Hey, I’ll cop a plea: Guilty. I will say my most recent book (2018) is substantially better than the…
Do You NaNo?
NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month, aka NaNo) is only a week away! If you’re not familiar with NaNo, the objective is to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days. I did my first NaNo in 2016, when I had just started writing. I did it for two reasons: first, to build a fire under…