Now is the best time to be a writer, ever. It’s not because the internet, Amazon and Kindle publishing, or ebooks has made it so easy to publish a book. It’s because more people can read than ever before. (UN statistics). Recently Joanna Penn on her Sep 10th, 2017 podcast interviewed author Micheal Ridpath. […]
You know the old saying; A journey of ten thousand leagues begins with a single step. Wear good shoes. That’s good advice. If you get massive blisters before you finish your first hundred miles you may not finish the next 100 miles let alone make it to the end of the journey. What are […]
If it gets you in the mood to write use accessories. You don’t need accessories, but anything that helps you write go for it. You can write with nothing more than a pencil or pen handed out by your local insurance agent or you scarfed at a writers convention and on a brown paper trash […]
While handing out Halloween candy I like to crank up the stereo and play Halloween music. What is music you ask, see the list; Toccata and Fugue in D minor by Back. I use an organ version. It’s a classic. Tubular Bells. People don’t recognize it but sets the mood for Halloween Grim Grinning Ghosts […]
My book was accepted into the contest. That can mean one of two things. That my book is better than I thought. The contest will accept anything that has a cover and words underneath. Is my insecurity showing? Yes. There will always be authors out there that are better than me. I’m competing against everyone. […]
I entered the first book I wrote in a contest. I’ve written three books. It’s the 2017 Readers Choice Awards by TCK Publishing. See the 2017 Readers Choice Awards by TCK Publishing. I did not write the next Harry Potter. I don’t expect to win this contest. The only chance I have to win something is if I’m chosen […]
Sunday I turned the last two chapters of book three to the critique group. A long road finished. Now I have to start the edit cycle. This can take three times as long as writing the first good draft. The current problem I’m having is finding Beta Readers. A couple of authors have told me […]
It’s 3:30 A.M. August 21, 2017 and I’m loading stuff into the car at the Hotel in Walla Walla, Washington. Others were leaving or loading their stuff along side us. The hotel made a bag lunch/breakfast for us early checkouts. Since we surveyed the route the day before getting out of town was painless. Next […]
Sunday I turned in chapter 18 of book three to the critique group. Three ships battle it out with torpedoes, cannons, and small arms fire. While the heroine is trapped on a barge in the middle of the fighting with the enemy spy. I kept three fights going at once while the heroine tries to […]
August 20th. After the complimentary breakfast at the hotel in Dayton, WA. we headed for Walla Walla, WA where I had reservations. We took highway 12 and found it was not well marked. Drove by Walla Walla and both me and my friend missed the off ramp to Walla Walla. There are not many gasoline […]