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  • IWSG May 2021

    May 5 question – Has any of your readers ever responded to your writing in a way that you didn’t expect? If so, did it surprise you? It surprised me when my husband read the first chapter of my first romance book (first person POV, hero’s perspective) and declared “It sounds like Bruce Campbell talking.”…

  • IWSG March 2021

    February totally smoked me. If we’d been racing for pinks, I’d have lost my car, my husband’s car, my parents’ cars, and all future cars my children will ever own to February. The writing at a friend’s house kind of works–when I can get there. Not easy when you have kids that want to spend…

  • IWSG February 2021

    I am going to deviate from this month’s subject questions and drift off on my own tangent. A bit on the whiny side, so you can skip it if you like. This month’s IWSG prompt is a lot more positive than what’s below. My writing trends up and down with stress. Unfortunately, it isn’t consistent.…

  • IWSG November 2020

    Albert Camus once said, “The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.” Flannery O’Conner said, “I write to discover what I know.” Authors across time and distance have had many reasons to write. Why do you write what you write? Urf. I have an answer, but I think it’s a bit…

  • IWSG October 2020

    When you think of the term working writer, what does that look like to you? What do you think it is supposed to look like? Do you see yourself as a working writer or aspiring or hobbyist, and if latter two, what does that look like? To me, a working writer hits their goals daily…

  • IWSG September 2020

    So, this time of year is usually when I try to roll out some School Year Resolutions. Things are a little up in the air, right now. Like many, I’ve been lurching from day to day like a sailor with a 3-day pass on a bar crawl, since about, oh… March-ish. Like everyone else. Not…