Top 5 things I’ve learned in the first year of my author career
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Top 5 things I’ve learned in the first year of my author career

1. Life is harder after you publish.  I spent over a year writing my first novel, which actually turned into the first three novels in my first series. Divide and conquer! I don’t know about the conquer part, the divide part was true. In the middle of rewrites and dividing and finding new beginnings and…

Awkward …

Awkward …

I was talking to my daughter one day about a character that had come up out of nowhere and was acting like an ass. I told her I didn’t know why he was acting that way or what I was going to do with him. Her reply? “You would think your not the one writing…

Why Do We Write?
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Why Do We Write?

I was listening to an older podcast this morning that was discussing resistance. There was a moment when one of the speakers asked another why he wanted to write fiction. The short version of his answer was “to bring joy to others.” That was the right answer. The speaker asking the question said if the…

The War Within

The War Within

Have you ever wondered why people with ADD and AD/HD make some of THE best writers? No? Me either. I know it is because their mind is always coming up with the best what ifs. Their thoughts travel to places ordinary people only dream of … or read about. The downside to being a new…