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Notebooks
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Some of my notebooks. I am an inveterate note taker. I keep a journal, make lists, draft books and even like to rough out my...
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Success Homework
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Photo courtesy Morguefile.com One of the ways to learn how to be successful in any endeavor is to study someone who has done...
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My New Laptop
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Finally, after over a year of waiting patiently my new laptop has arrived. I was so excited I took pictures of everything! My...
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Full-Time Writer and Single Mom: A Book Review
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. I stumbled upon a little book by Samantha Fegely titled Full-Time Writer and Single Mom: How I Make a Living Writing...
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Three Reasons Why Writers Fail
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. While I’ve been writing from as far back as I can remember, I started writing professionally in 2008. Those first few bucks I...
View ArticleThe Death of YCN
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Yahoo Contributor Network has announced that at the end of July they will be closing their site. This announcement saddens me....
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Fighting With Myself
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. For my last writer’s group meeting I submitted the rewritten draft of one of my novel chapters. They hated it. They not only...
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Post Scheduling Update
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Hello, everyone! NaNoWriMo is starting in a few days so once again I am going to dive in and write like crazy to attain my...
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Breakthrough!
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Good morning Internet! I interrupt the regularly scheduled programming for a BIG announcement. Okay, it’s time to come clean....
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How to Kick Butt with the New Year
To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. With the new year comes new resolutions and great hope that this fresh year will bring us closer to achieving our dreams....
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To support my work please buy a book or make a donation today. Thank you. Would you like me to discuss my writing foibles here in a more specific way (steps and stuff), or would you prefer me to just...
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When you don’t reach your goal
Sunday found me struggling as I sat down to write. I was exhausted and the words kept swimming in and out of focus while I tried to work. I tried to keep going but it was obvious that my body needed...
View ArticleQuestion for the Ladies
Ladies, I am currently working on a book project titled “Lessons Every Lady Should Know.” It is a compendium of little lessons that we wish someone had taught us but that we had to learn the hard way....
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The Value of a Break
When I first started writing full-time for income, I had to write seven days a week, all day, to earn enough money to survive. I quickly burned out and found myself procrastinating when it came time...
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The Search for a Minimalist Journal
As I have previously posted, I have a fondness for writing in journals. I love the paper, the feel of the pen on the paper, the ability to save clippings and whatnot, and I refer to them regularly to...
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Coffee Break Extra Radio Interview
Hello everybody! I will be on the WCYN 1400AM Coffee Break Extra Radio show on February 3rd, 2015 along with several other local writers to help promote the Cynthiana Write Club, the writer’s group...
View ArticleDownside to Being a Full Time Writer
After a few days at work I’ve finally worked up the nerve to share this post. When I first quit my public job in 2011 I thought that living full-time as a writer was all sunshine and roses. You can do...
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Back to Paper
To celebrate my new position I treated myself to a fancy paper journal the other day. I spent a whopping $5 on it. I’m not comfortable with taking my precious electronics to work with me (and leaving...
View ArticleThe game plan
My General Manager saw me collecting my schedule the other day and commented on how many hours I was working. I explained that I was saving up for Katie’s laptop and that I would like to cut back to...
View ArticleSnatches of time
All of my writing is now done in little snatches of time. I’ve overcome my need to have my nails perfectly done or to perform little writing rituals–if I want to get any writing done at all, I have to...
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