Sunday, December 29, 2019

Mixed Results for My Goal for 2019

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For the last several years, I've organized my new year's resolutions not as a grab-bag of random, uninspiring, dutiful items (e.g., ...
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Saturday, December 14, 2019

Waiting for a Plot Twist in My Life

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I was recently alerted to the fact that this month is not only the last month of the year, but the last month of the DECADE. My husband alwa...
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Sunday, December 8, 2019

Which Is More Fun: First Draft or Revision?

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Well, I did it. I now have a fully revised draft of Boogie Bass, Sign Language Star completed and off to writer friends for their review, w...
Sunday, November 24, 2019

The Writing Journey: From Slogging to Bliss!

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Well, I did it. Once again, I slogged, and slogged, and slogged, and slogged - and also trudged, and plodded, and dragged, and moped - my ...
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Monday, November 11, 2019

Writing Advice: How to Make Slogging Less Sloggy

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I'm back from a glorious few days in Tucson at my friend Lisa's wedding, which I also turned into a mini-writing retreat for myself....
Tuesday, November 5, 2019

In Praise of Slogging and Trudging

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I'm now partway through writing the fourth book in my After-School Superstars series for Holiday House. This is the series set in an aft...
Friday, November 1, 2019

When Even Your Best Survival Strategies Are No Longer Working

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Confession time: my blog has been boring lately, even to me. I've been reduced to writing about my defunct furnace and snow-day activiti...
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