Living In Place
A Tool for Setting & Meeting Goals
I long ago gave up making New Year’s resolutions, but ever since discovering Bylines: The Essential Weekly Planner for Writers, I’ve been setting clear, measurable, and...
Finding an Agent
There are many ways to find an agent. I know, because I’ve tried most of them. In the past decade, I’ve queried over sixty agents about two different books - and had contracts...
Surviving the Holidays
Here it is, that time of year again, when it seems to take all our fortitude to avoid holiday hype, eat reasonably and actually enjoy our families – and yet somehow not lose the...
Re-vision: To See Again
It’s November, National Novel Writing Month (NANOWRIMO), when ambitious writers pound out a novel in a notoriously short month – only thirty days, several of which are devoted to...
Morning Pages
One year ago - after ten months of energetically marketing my novel - I followed The Artist’s Way, a twelve-week course in finding my way back to the page. Written by Julia...
Souvenirs from the Edge
In Happy Trails, my last post before I left on vacation, I anticipated collecting stories while I was away. But one of the wonders of travel is its element of surprise: I didn’t...