I’ve spent the last three days doing something that I’ve done for clients but never for myself – a read-aloud edit of a novel. Several years ago, my second novel, Dream or Destiny, was accepted for publication by a small press publisher. However, after the contract was signed but before production started, the company changed … Read more
In the last post, we talked about self-publishing a children’s book on CD. This is the final installment in the answers to questions posted by a writer. Patti McQuillen wrote in answer to my follow-up questions: I don’t have a clue about making my children’s book available online as a download. I am working on … Read more
I’ve said before that I participate in memes only when they fit my goals for this blog. Since I’ve learned that building a community is the most important part of blogging, anything that helps us get to know each other better is worth doing. Lisa at Getting it Write for You tagged me to share … Read more
One year ago today I started this adventure called blogging. Actually I had set up a Blogger site a long time ago but never developed it, and I coordinated a couple of group blogs for Christian E-Authors but never got as much participation as I’d hoped. Although I had helped several clients start blogs, they … Read more
Theda at Crayon Writer started an interesting conversation with If you can write, you can copyedit. She defined mechanical and substantive copyediting and asked the question: What do you prefer? Writing for yourself, mechanical copyediting, or substantive copyediting? I answered the question in comments but thought it would be interesting to my readers to carry … Read more
A reader expressed an interest in posts on journal writing. A journal can be just anything you, the writer, want it to be. So the first step should be to decide what that is. Why do you journal? What do you hope to accomplish? Journals and diaries are sometimes considered to be the same. In … Read more
As part of Stroke Awareness Month, I’m sharing my stroke experience. You can read about the beginning and the first three days in previous posts. From the third day after the stroke when I could move my fingers and lift my shoulder off the bed, I knew I would become functional again. But it took … Read more
Read an E-book Week is March 4 – 10, 2007. The week is designed to celebrate e-books and to educate the public about them. If you’ve read this blog for any time at all, you probably know I’m a big advocate of e-books. My novel Stroke of Luck is published as an e-book, and I’ve been … Read more
Who reads your work-in-progress? I recently read some advice – rules of life – from a famous writer. Sorry, I forgot who it was! This great writer said he never let anyone read his works-in-progress, and he advised other writers to follow his example. He said most people don’t know enough about writing to recognize … Read more