In August, my dear friend Alexandra texted me with a proposal that we finish our novels and start sending them to agents in March. To be clear, these are the novels […]
Your Public Library Online (and How to Check Books Out Digitally)
For a long time I knew about the public library online portal, but I never used it. In truth, it’s not the most intuitive system, and I kind of like the […]
Knowing the Course Ahead, in Running as in Writing
I recently signed up for a 10K trail race with my friend Cindy (aka The Sweet Nerd) and her husband. His company is sponsoring a team. Since joining up, I’ve gone […]
National Author’s Day NaNoWriMo-style
It’s National Author’s Day! What a perfect way to kick off NaNoWriMo. And since I’m participating myself this year, I’m going to keep today’s post short and sweet, sharing a […]
Lit Crawl LA 2016
Last night I crawled the streets of North Hollywood with a few hundred other book fiends for the Lit Crawl LA 2016. Last year I heard about it two days […]
Keep Focused with a Writing Punch List
In a recent post, John Fox, of the BookFox blog, wrote about the challenges of self-editing. His very first bit of advice is to isolate the various elements of your […]
NaNoWriMo 2016
I’ve never done NaNoWriMo. At least, not really. And I’ve been losing sleep over whether I should join up for NaNoWriMo 2016. Previous NaNoWriMo Fails The main reason I’ve never […]