My family is full swing into our fall schedule. Busy! While driving one kid home from Math Olympiad, and needing to pick up another after a Daisy meeting, I thought, how did I get myself into this crazy schedule? We are full up as a family. I even had to quit an activity I started [...]

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Last week I told you that my first steps in revision are to print out my entire manuscript and read it through in one sitting, creating a revision list as I go. I write down everything that occurs to me including questions, ideas, answers to questions I’d written in parentheses, repetitive words and phrases, inconsistencies, [...]

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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 [...]

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