An Hour A Day

A blog about writing, children's books, and time management

Thursday, January 8, 2026

In Praise of Rejection Slips

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Despite its being the new year, the year I vowed that Everything Is Going to Be Different This Time, I am back in my same old listless letha...
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Thursday, January 1, 2026

What Is the Difference Between "Contentment" and "Settling"?

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Happy new year, everybody! Poet Molly Fisk suggests that instead of making new year's resolutions, we choose a word to reflect on throug...
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Sunday, September 21, 2025

One of the Happiest Days of My Long and Happy Life

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This post is going to be stuffed full of love and joy and bliss and gratitude as I come down to Earth after my younger son's wedding ear...
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Tuesday, July 1, 2025

The Best Gift from the Muses: A New Book Idea

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Some of my writer friends have zillions of ideas, more than they could write about in a lifetime. I heard a talk from one children's boo...
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Sunday, June 1, 2025

The Worst Part of Being a Writer: Waiting to Hear

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My new book (working title: T he Cottage on Fox Hollow Lane ) was sent to my editor partway through April. At the start of May, my agent fol...
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Thursday, May 1, 2025

The Month to REALLY Try Something New?

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The book I've been writing for six months now, the one set in my sweet cottage on the street where I live, the street filled with wonder...
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Tuesday, April 1, 2025

When You Write DONE on the Last Page of the First Draft

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Last month, I experienced the thrill of writing DONE in big letters after the last line of the last page of my 55,000-word work-in progress,...
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