Don’t Panic and Always Know Where Your Towel Is To celebrate a certain person’s 42nd birthday, we had a Hitchhikers Guide party. 42 is the answer to the question of…
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Recycled Egg Dye project My son and I decorated eggs using a basic dye kit. When we were finished, we had all these cups of dye. On a whim, I…
Boosting Creativity Sometimes it’s good to get out of the house. Julia Cameron, in her famous book on creativity, The Artist’s Way, suggests taking an “artist’s date”. Explore a museum.…
The Muddle in the Middle I haven’t posted in a while. I gave myself a deadline for finishing the second draft of my novel, and then life happened. Nothing serious,…
Word cloud made with WordItOut In a World… I’m taking a short break from revising (I’ve gotten through the first five chapters!) to work on my blurb. That’s the catchy description…
Rewriting for “Pantsers” If you write by the seat of your pants instead of carefully outlining, rewriting can be difficult. I’m revising a first draft that I merrily wrote without…
Taking the next step I’ve been invited to join a writing group and I’m both excited and scared. I’ve technically been part of a writing group for years, but we’re…
Goals that conflict with each other For most of my adult life I have had two major goals: 1, get down to and maintain a healthy weight and 2, become…
People judge books by their covers As a Librarian, I stare at hundreds of book covers a day, not only in our collection but in book review journals, online reviews,…
