For a week or so, I’ve been working on updating my Etsy Shop. Editing the items I’ll be selling. How they’ll be listed. The schedule for listing. The style of listing. A lot of things. Simple, little things that are only going to make my shop look better. Very exciting and I’m glad I’m doing …
As usual, I would like to start out by apologizing for my silence. It’s surprisingly difficult to stick to writing in my blog when I have a lot of “to do” activities I seem to be working to avoid. Wait. What? Yes, you read that correctly. I have a lot of things I could be …
You might be ready to paint the greatest of all paintings or you could be sitting down to type up your greatest masterpiece yet. No matter where you hold your creativity, you must always be willing to wait. How many times have you been in line at checkout when a sudden comment from a stranger …
An author can bring their story to life using any method they deem suitable for them. There are some authors able to start writing without a lot of planning ahead of time and it works out perfectly. I wrote this way when I brought my first series to life. (The Lyall Pack Series: Volume 1, …
Continue reading Do You Have a Plan? Are You Going in Blind?
From time to time authors come across ideas outside things they never thought to write about. These ideas could be amazing but the author walks away because they have no idea how to do it. But no matter how far we try to run from these moments, we know the ideas are engraved into our …
I have mentioned time and time again I am working to write up a murder mystery as my next novel. Oh, has it been a challenge! There are so many facts I must gather before I can even think about typing the story on my computer. I think the hardest part was figuring out all …
Continue reading Completing My Research Before I Write Chapter One
I have finished my personal project pieces! With those done it is finally time to buckle down with my latest novel idea! Yeah, I say this again and again only to end up distracted by some other activity or event. But no more! At the beginning of my blog I featured a post about Creating A …
Sally Newton was left alone to clean the tables outside Midnight Magic's dance floor. The other two workers for the night always did as little work as they could get away with and as long as they left Sally alone she didn't care too much. Annoyance number one was Cristina Palmer. The squeaky girl was …
I am proud to say not only am I an author but I am also an artist. My biggest pull when I was younger was coloring pretty pictures and one thing led to another before I realized I truly loved all forms of pencil to paper. I drew up cute little kittens, made happy families, …
Writing My Career 