I have been tagged by both Opal Tribble at Addicted to Writing and Misti Sandefur at Life of a Writer for the Roar for Powerful Words meme. The post originating this award at Shameless Lions Writing Circle says recipients are to… … accompany the image with three things they believe are necessary to make writing … Read more
Phil Davis of Authors on the Net recently interviewed me about self-publishing. This podcast covers the first five chapters of the Self-Publishing Primer about the different publishing options authors have. Come back next week when we will continue the discussion. If you’re an author and haven’t joined Authors on the Net, check it out. You’ll find … Read more
Robert Hruzek’s latest What I Learned From … group writing project is BLOGAPALOOZA! What I Learned From 2007. Rather than posting entries on their own blogs, participants e-mailed them to Robert, and he posted them at Middle Zone Musings. You’ll find a collection of fascinating entries, each featuring one post for every month the participant … Read more
Recently, a client sent me a document to edit that was filled with spelling errors that should have been caught by spell check. I sent my client a note offering to help her new assistant turn on automatic spell checking. A few days later, I was working on a new document for the same client. … Read more
An aspiring teen writer asked me about resources for young writers in response to my post about the EPIC New Voices writing competition. If you know of any resources for student writers that I haven’t mentioned here or in previous posts, please leave a comment. I like to encourage aspiring writers and to share useful … Read more
Mig at Pamil Vision’s eWritings tagged me for The Blogging Better Meme by Sueblimely The idea of this meme is to: Help us stop and think about how we could become better bloggers and what we need to do to achieve this. Share our blogging knowledge and experience. Please answer these questions in relation to … Read more
Writers hate rejection. Here’s a bit of wisdom from author Barbara Kingsolver on what that rejection letter really means: This manuscript of yours that has just come back from another editor is a precious package. Don’t consider it rejected. Consider that you’ve addressed it ‘to the editor who can appreciate my work’ and it has … Read more
I’m not sure whether to thank or blame Lisa Gates at Design Your Writing Life for A Gratitude “MeMe” for “YouYou.” On one hand, this post has taken more time and effort to compile than any other single post I’ve ever written. Lisa said it would be a challenge to do it manually, but I … Read more
Happy 75th birthday to Jack, my husband of 40+ years! Yes, he really is 75, and yes, that really is a recent photo – taken less than a year ago.