Living In Place
The Artist’s Date
Several years ago I followed the exercises in Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way. Well, I followed some of them; I wrote my morning pages without fail. But I confess: I...
Planning A Blog
I’ve been thinking about starting a blog of my own for some time. Now that the current draft of Ellen is on my agent’s desk for review, I’m finally ready to turn my attention to...
Sentence Sense: Parallel Structure
As promised in A Sentence is a Complete Thought, today’s post is devoted to Parallel Structure. Parallel structure aids coherence by balancing nouns with nouns, prepositional...
A Sentence is a Complete Thought
A sentence is a complete thought, containing both subject and verb. The subject is what the sentence is about, and the verb is what the subject is doing.Here’s an example of a...
Marketing Your Book
As I’ve said before and I’ll say again, “It’s easy to get published – and hard to get read.” I was reminded of this at Bookstock, where I met many self-published authors selling...
Blogging at Bookstock: Live to Write Goes on the Road
On Saturday, Wendy E. N. Thomas, Lisa J. Jackson and I appeared at the Bookstock Literary Festival to talk about writing this collaborative blog. Wendy kicked the panel...