Another of my bait-and-switch posts – not that kind of pot. 😀 Nor am I referring to our modern cooking pots. The pots I truly love are those that were made over the centuries by people now long gone; who sat at their potters’ wheels molding clay with patience and artistry. When their pots dried, they decorated and […]
When writing my first book, I would hear others say that the second one is harder. I had to toss those words out of my brain because even the first draft of the first book was hard enough. I’ve recently started drafting the second book and I saw that those folks were right. I now […]
My new work in progress (wip) is on a hit list. In the story, the heroine chases and pins down especially slippery pieces of information. I know who the assassins are – search engines. They have become so ubiquitous that the name of one of them is now the verb for using them all (“Google […]
‘Snippet’. Snip pet. Such a funny word. I could have used ‘fragment’, but it’s not nearly as much fun, and ‘scrap’ is just plain boring. My snip pets are the paragraphs and pages of unconnected writing I’ve been accumulating over the past couple of months. They all relate to the new novel, but don’t form a […]
Had a heck of a time with the post for this week. I wanted to share progress on my projects, but my brain held visions of artifacts. So I bowed to the pull of the universe, which after all, is far more powerful than all of us. So what’s on my mind? Months. Specifically, the […]
This post was supposed to be a rant about too many files, because I was frustrated by having to search through so many when I needed to edit an artifact for my ‘work in progress’ (WIP). Added to that was the pressure of knowing how important it is to have a story outline, and having that knowledge reinforced […]
