Tag: life in general

  • IWSG June 2020

    June 3 Question – Writers have secrets!  What are one or two of yours, something readers would never know from your work? I haven’t read a new fiction book in years. I can’t do it. I get too caught up in the details, the inconsistencies, the plot holes, how I would’ve phrased that sentence, blahblahblah.…

  • IWSG May 2020 – Very Late

    Do you have any rituals that you use when you need help getting into the ZONE? Care to share? It used to be: get up, eat, get the kids to school, shower, tea, write. If I didn’t do one of those things, the day was shot for writing. If I had to do something else,…

  • Tackling Area 51 In The Basement

    Has anyone else encountered an odd psychological resistance to working on your Unfinished projects? I’ve made progress, I have, really. But some days it just feels like I’m flogging a dead horse to finish some of these things that I started years ago. I’m not talking about “I bought yard for this project, but I…

  • IWSG April 2020

      So this month’s question is: How are things in your part of the world? Very little writing in the last 6 months, despite my efforts. Less than awesome, but survivable. Things have been like that for a long time, actually. I thought I’d moved past it last fall, but then everything went to crap,…

  • December 2019 ISWG

    Wow. December. The year is already gone. I’m not sure what I accomplished this past year. I progressed a bit on my writing, banging out a rough draft romance novel, tightened up Book 3 volume 1 of the fantasy series (Book 3 is going to kill me, I swear. I knew it was going to…

  • IWSG November 2019

    What’s the strangest thing you’ve ever googled in researching a story? Ooohhhh…. hah… uhm…. How do I pick *just* one? I mean, there was the time I needed to determine if there are snakes or lizards that actually have live births of their young (There are.). Or the afternoon I needed to research… uhm… adult…