Tag: writer’s life

  • Killer Research

    Killer Research

    For other writerly thoughts today, you could check out my Mad Genius Club post. This post is about how a story was killed by research. Or: facts and fiction get muddled easily. I was chatting with a colleague about mustangs, and how I was wondering that the BLM rehomes mustangs in the Tennessee area. She…

  • Juggling running chainsaws, machetes, and lit torches

    Juggling running chainsaws, machetes, and lit torches

    Writing is an effort. I’ve likened putting a finished ms out for publication to giving birth, but perhaps the better comparison would be to sending a kid to college. After all, gestation in the womb is a largely unconscious process. Writing is anything but. We plot and plan and think for hours. I am a…

  • Reading, Writing, and…

    Good Morning. I’m up at Mad Genius Club this morning talking about the predicted decline and death of ebooks, and why I think that’s premature. I am also asking for help and recommendations with a tablet and apps for my sister Juniper. This is a special case, as what we need for her is essentially…

  • New Author Bio

    My First Reader surprised me with this, he’d written it after I told him I was having trouble coming up with one for Amazon that would replace the very out-dated one I’d put up a few years ago. Thank you, dear man! There are few things I dislike more than writing my own bio.  Cedar…