Although the words don’t always come as fast as I like, I seldom experience writer’s block. But I constantly struggle with “promotion block”. I tell myself I need to promote and set things in motion to start but then I never follow through. When my last book came out in the fall, I made some…
In less than two months I am retiring. All at once I will have an extra thirty-two hours every week to do whatever I want. One of my goals (dreams) is to write more and produce more pages. But will it work out that way? I am hopeful, but also aware of the potential pitfalls…
Last spring I finished what seemed like the “book from hell”. Every chapter felt dredged from the depths of my creative soul. Like getting water from a well running dry, I could only scoop up a bare teaspoonful of story at a time. It got worse when two thirds of the way through I realized…
If this were a typical year, I would be attending Colorado Gold conference this month. Besides a few workshops and the social activities, I would make sure to attend the editor and agent roundtables, where “the experts” answer questions and give advice to aspiring writers. Over the years, the questions asked at these programs were…
There’s something about traveling that sharpens my writing perspective. In a new place, my thoughts feel unbound, sniffing out every possibility like a dog that’s slipped its collar. In these moments I find unexpected clarity about nearly every aspect of my life, from careers to relationships to plot lines, and from realizations ranging from the…