Looks like I’m the out of step with the group again. Unlike Shonna (Congratulations!), I didn’t finish NaNo and unlike Kitty, I’m not even close. I haven’t written a word on my NaNoNovel since the day before I wrote my blog about quitting. [...]

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Since living in the USA I’ve been introduced to a fascinating after Thanksgiving tradition: Black Friday shopping. I vaguely remember my first (and only) Black Friday experience standing in line at Walmart while it was still dark outside. I am SO not a morning person. I never did it again. I much prefer shopping the [...]

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It took me years to discover that I am an A.D.D. writer. Though I don’t have a startling amount of Attention Deficit in my everyday life, the facts don’t lie and my A.D.D. shows up in my writing like a big ugly neon elephant, along with my fear of commitment.
[I’m sure some of the single [...]

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Let me save you some time here and tell you at the beginning that I don’t know the answer to this question. Just in case you got all excited and called your writers group to come read this blog.
But I bet you know what I’m talking about. When do you realize that this was just [...]

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Routines for Writers is pleased to welcome Janice Elsheimer as our special guest every Tuesday in November. While we’re all busily writing away, Janice will give us tips and ideas for increasing our creativity. Please join us in thanking Janice for being with us this month!
After my first book was published, I experienced post-partum depression. [...]

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          Last week I told you I was quitting my NaNoNovel and going to work on non-fiction. I’m sure you are wondering if my experiment worked. It did! Maybe my new motto needs to be, “If at first you don’t succeed, Quit!” [...]

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Here we are half-way through NaNoWriMo. For those of you toughing it out, how is your middle going? I find mine lagging a bit so I went online for some encouragement. Here’s what I found:
Richard Harland says: For me, there’s always a moment, 10-15,000 words in, when the tight opening sequence of scenes runs out. [...]

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I’m not sure I’m a good example to follow when it comes to writing habits.  I can be a little…obsessive.
I ride motorcycles – 100,000 miles, since I learned how.  I ride a bicycle – 100 miles a week.  You see where I’m going with this.  I sit down and write from 4 am to 6 [...]

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We’re pretty close to being completely unpacked. Some stuff we took out of boxes and put on the floor knowing we’ll have to put it away to avoid tripping over it for the next couple of years. It says something about my cooking that most of our cookware is still sitting on the living room [...]

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Routines for Writers is pleased to welcome Janice Elsheimer as our special guest every Tuesday in November. While we’re all busily writing away, Janice will give us tips and ideas for increasing our creativity. Please join us in welcoming Janice!
How did life get so…well, lively? Do you remember when a month into summer vacation, you’d [...]

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