Sometimes you just have to show up, even when you have nothing to give. Even when you have convinced yourself that no one wants to read what you have to…
Category: <span>writing</span>
First of all, give yourself a break. This isn’t a planned writer’s retreat, this is a stretched-out crisis full of anxiety-provoking issues. If you are struggling with your creativity because…
The sequel to Curse of the Armchair Detective is out! Sam is wracked with nerves before his wedding, and one of his worries is that there will be a murder.…
Goal setting By the end of March I will finish my second draft of my novel. Flipping through my notebooks I find goals like these plastered everywhere. Goals are not…
I’m reading Secret Societies: Inside the World’s Most Notorious Organizations by John Lawrence Reynolds to help me develop my own evil organization for my story. I recommend this book-…
This year for NaNoWriMo, I’m rewriting the first novel I ever wrote. It’s awful. Back at the end of the 20th century, I worked on my book for over two…
Here’s my cover for the book- what do you think? I was going for “uncovered ancient book of knowledge.”
Write Right Here I’m working on revising a rough draft of a novel. I have a skeleton there, but there is a long, hard way to go. I look at…
In honor of poetry month, create a “found” poem by stacking books. This is a great and easy display for a library, and a mind-stretching exercise for writers and other…
Writing Progress I’ve set aside my Librarian Craft project to focus on my second draft of a fantasy novel called “Other People’s Magic”. It was a tangled mess, as I…
