Autumn arrives this Friday the 22nd at precisely 4:02 PM, Eastern Standard Time. I had vowed to buckle down and get serious about my Creative Crone book right after Labor Day, but two weeks have passed and I’m still stuck in summertime. Hardly surprising, since it’s four o’clock and 81 degrees in the shade. Clearly… [Read More]
Onward and Upward with NaNoWriMo
It’s Tuesday, November 15, 2016. November is half over, and so is NaNoWriMo. Once again it’s National Novel Writing Month, and I’ve vowed to write 50,000 words by November 30. So far, I’ve written just over 10,000, and the jazzy graph of my statistics on the NaNo website predicts that at the rate I’m going,… [Read More]
Block Busting in the merry month of May
It’s just over a month till my workshop at the East Greenbush Library on June 4th. Here’s the description I sent for their newsletter: BLOCK BUSTING: HOW TO BREAK THROUGH THE BARRIERS THAT KEEP YOU FROM WRITING Writer’s block afflicts every author sooner or later. If you’ve ever found yourself paralyzed, staring at an empty… [Read More]