I've been twittered. Or at least I've dipped my toe in and have given it a try. I feel so . . . connected and a little baffled and a lot overwhelmed by the feeds. Who to follow? What are the rules? What are the social niceties that one must follow so that one does not...
Here I told you all that I would get another blog written last week and here it is Friday of this week. Sheesh. Um. Wow. I've been writing? Does that work? I actually have been writing. Head down, working on the next book. And I've come to the realization that getting...
Sometimes writing can be described with one word: momentum. The process of continuously moving forward. What I've come to realize the most about momentum and writing is that it isn't just one big push at the beginning or one big leap at the end that gets a book...
I recently picked up an issue of Oprah's magazine. One of the recent ones on clutter and organizing. Sadly, this is always topical in my house. We've been doing a lot of that lately—cleaning out closets, whole rooms and my husband has been on a rampage to Get...
I really, truly hate Chapter 7. In any book. Now don't all run out and check Chapter 7 in my books, because whatever finally made it into that section of the final version was definitely not what was bedeviling me while I was writing. Let me explain. Every time I head...
Since I didn't get a chance to schedule the link up on my Events page (the interview was supposed to go up in June), I thought I would share with you an interview I did with Sally Watts of the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library system. She was so kind to ask me to...
