Weekend! Time to catch up on all the things that I don’t get a chance to do during the week. Something I have been making time for during the week is the Storywonk Daily Podcast. Running between eight and thirteen minutes each, Alastair Stephens and Lani Diane Rich put up a new podcast every Monday through Friday about a different aspect of writing and a...

“Anyone can dabble, but once you’ve made that commitment, your blood has that particular thing in it, and it’s very hard for people to stop you.” — Bill Cosby It might be hard for other people to stop you, but surprisingly easily for us to stop ourselves. I’ve got a short story which should have been finished Monday. ...

No, I’m not going to look at the date of my last post; it will only depress me. Suffice to say, life has been busy with the rent-paying job. However, I have managed to discover a few things along the way: 1) I cannot resist the lure of new yarn, especially since I’ve discovered lace knitting. I now need more storage space. 2) The shiny new project? Not...

Goals for today: 1) Gym again. More run/walk. 2) Having proudly stated that I don’t want to let the one sentence story summary hold me back, I need to open a blank file and start on the “whys?” for at least one of these projects. Share this:EmailShare on Tumblr Pin It

I keep running into folks who say, “You need to start with a sentence — preferably 25 words or less — that sums up your book.” Unless I’m going to write, “Boy meets girl, stuff happens, they live happily ever after,” I don’t think that’s going to work for me. The idea is brilliant; you boil your story down to its...