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,...
Wednesday, March 12, 2025

When You're Writing a Book about a Magical, Enchanted Space . . . and Then the Magic Dies

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Dear friends, I have been writing a middle-grade children's novel set in a cottage like the one I live in with my sweetheart, on a stree...
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Saturday, March 1, 2025

When the Writing Magic Happens

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February was an intense writing month. For me, "intense" means faithfully writing for a (predawn) hour a day, every day, up in my ...
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Saturday, February 1, 2025

Joy Report as Month Two Begins

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My ONLY goal for 2025 is: "stuff my creative life as full as I can of JOY and PLAY." I am here to report that this is turning out ...
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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Plans for the New Year: Joy and Play

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I had lunch yesterday with a dear friend I hadn't seen for a long while. "Where was your new year's blog post?" she asked....
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Wednesday, December 18, 2024

A Writer's Tragedy - and Maybe Getting Past It?

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So I was going to a little family reunion in Dallas last weekend. I love to work on planes; I love filing my little backpack with tempting p...
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Monday, December 2, 2024

The Winter of a Writer's Discontent

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It's not quite winter yet according to the calendar. But the year is drawing to a close, which means end-of-year literary accolades are ...
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