There are times when I find it difficult to distinguish real life from the fictional lives I live in my stories. Yes, I admit it…I do live the lives of the characters in my stories. Not just the heroine or hero, but all of the characters. In a sense, a writer has to live as […]
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I didn’t write much last month. I guess you could say I took December off. Most of my time was spent glued to the television, binge-watching Hallmark Christmas movies. Ah, nothing is better than love in December! I plan on changing my lethargic ways. Not only am I going to finish The Unselfish Uncle this
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November is over, NaNoWriMo is finished, and the Christmas season is upon us. I wish I could tell you that I demolished NaNoWriMo, but the truth is I only wrote 21,000 I feel like a failure. I know why I didn’t complete my writing goal for November. I got distracted. It’s my daughter’s fault. Yes,
I recently got my first iPhone. Actually, I’ve had a smartphone in the past, but I hardly ever used it. My excuse was I couldn’t afford it, which turned out to be true, so for several years I used one of those pay-for-the-minutes phones that grannies use. (Wait a minute…I am a grannie!) But I
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One of my fans surprised me a while back. She offered to correct a few of the errors in one of my books. I suspected that a few errors had slipped by, something that I actually dread, but really, how many could there be? Since my fan offered to do the edit for free, how
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Okay, I admit it. I am a lousy blogger. I know that I should spend a lot more time on this effort than I do (just a couple of minutes a day would be a considerable improvement). I shouldn’t expect anyone to come here if I don’t come here. It’s a fact of life. I