What great comments on this Wednesday’s blog about grief! I appreciate you readers so much.Today, I’m taking a little break. The cool thing is that I’m now the West Virginia ACFW area coordinator! I’m very excited about this, but I’ve been busy setting up our group page. If you’re around WV and you’re interested in conferences going on in the… Read More
ORIGINS Blogfest…In Which a Poet Morphs into a Book-Writing Mom
For the Origins Blogfest, we’re supposed to chronicle our earliest remembrances of our writing superpowers…okay, maybe not superpowers, as you’ll quickly find out below. As you can tell from my monkey bar photo above, I had a highly cerebral childhood! Seriously, though, I was ambidextrous till K-4 (they made me choose), I read a LOT, and I liked phonics. This… Read More
An Edit a Day…
I would like to blog, on my birthday (okay, we’re actually into the next day at 12:22 @ night) that I have finished the editing of my Viking book. Well, the first edit. My own personal edit, which may not be too edit-y. I will now follow in the footsteps of my great-aunt, who is also a writer, and interview… Read More
THE WRITER WHEN FINISHED–PALE, LACKING MAKEUP OR RECENT HAIRCOLOR, BUT SMUG NONETHELESS
I am tempted to write this entire post in caps, because I am definitely shouting inside. Months have passed, exactly how many, I’m not sure, but at least six. And my historical fiction book on an awesome Viking woman named Gudrid is now done. Writers keep so much bottled up, pouring forth their imaginatory prowess into their works, that when… Read More