Happy New Year! I plan to make this the year of ‘no’: it’s not as negative as it sounds. For many years I have said ‘yes’ to far too many things. I am always hungry for experiences. And I generally only do things I actually want to do (I’ve become much better at not doing…
Tag: How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job
Write 4 a Day: Sunday Nov 22
Write 4 a Day: Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? #NaNoWriMo
Free Today Only: How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job
Today only to kick off NaNoWriMo I’m giving away copies of the ebook How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job. You don’t have to be a-NaNo-ing to get it. Just pop on over to Amazon (change the suffix as needed from .com to whatever your local is in the address) and click to…
Write 4 a Day Begins!
All was in readiness for the folks to arrive — which is to say I spent most of Saturday afternoon making sure cobwebs would not surprise visitors (they appear so quickly) and persuading most of the arachnids to vacate the chicken house so we could use it as a ‘quiet’ place for people who wanted…
Sunday, Sunday, Sunday! Write 4 a Day
Write 4 a Day Don’t you deserve at least one day to write? Write 4 a Day is a new series of monthly one-day writing retreats in upstate New York. While I shall be hosting the events, let me be clear that there is no workshop no agenda no required activities no assignments no schedule no…
Upcoming Appearances
° Meet the Authors: Frankie Bailey and K.A. Laity Nassau Free Library January 26, 2015 @ 6:00 pm Rescheduling due to snow Professor Frankie Bailey (UAlbany) and Professor K. A. Laity (College of St. Rose) will be visiting the library to talk about their published mystery books and will introduce Mavens of Mayhem, the local…
Habit: How to Keep Writing with a Full Time Job
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle Happy new year! A lot of people are starting new changes today. Some will give up quickly, some will doggedly persist until some kind of change has been achieved. The primary difference is forming habits. We sometimes dismiss the…
Do You NaNo?
If you’re participating in the madness that is NaNoWriMo, you may find this little 60pp guide handy. Today only it’s free, so pick it up by clicking the picture — and good luck!
Writer Wednesday: After the Marathon
I’m heading down to London today for the first of two conferences with my pal Debi. It signals the end of my sabbatical and all the writing it has engendered. More importantly, it means I have to leave Dundee and those I love here, but I’m going to stick to talking about writing here (if…
NaNoWriMo Begins
If you have ever had any interest in writing, you have probably heard of NaNoWriMo, or [Inter]National Novel Writing Month. I haven’t actually done it before though I did take part in the Three Day Novel Writing contest and have actually written a novel in less than 10 days (which one? I’ll never tell). November…