Jan 2, 2018 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! (I wish I was tech savvy enough to program a really cool virtual glitter cannon to fire when arrive here, but since I’m not, how about we just pretend?) *fires 18 glitter cannons* Welcome to the new year! You’ve been on my mind a lot over the past...
Jul 4, 2017 | The Writing Life
Some days, if not most of them, writing is HARD. It hurts. Your brain screams, your fingers feel numb, and the story on the page reads like anything but the NYT best-selling novel you want it to be. On those days it’s easy to believe you made a bad choice...
Apr 18, 2017 | Craft Your Book, The Writing Life
A subtle, almost imperceptible moment—where the course of the main character’s (MC) life changes forever (whether or not she knows it). In my novel, it’s the moment when Heath—yep… the unnamed victim in the opening chapter has a name—decides to take a shortcut...
Apr 11, 2017 | Embolden Your Inner Writer, Inspiration, The Writing Life
It was a box. A plain one. Designed to hold paper and yet it contained everything I’d worked on for the previous two years–Chakra launches, workshops, course developments, some successes and all my failures. Everything broken down into one, tiny box that...
Mar 25, 2017 | Craft Your Book, Embolden Your Inner Writer, The Writing Life
Confession: I’ve been indulging in a little Office marathon this week while Joe is out of town. Don’t ask me why. Probably because I’ve already gone through Hawaii Five-O, Death in Paradise, and a handful of others that all had endings I hated. I figured I knew what I...
Feb 28, 2017 | Craft Your Book, Inspiration, The Writing Life
I’ve been facing fears recently (lots of them actually) in an effort to stretch and build my growth muscles. And let me tell you… what a ride! One of the “Fears that will make me grow” I’ve been tackling is… *drumroll*...
