I love watching the Olympics. And when I’ve placed a self-imposed deadline to have a revision of my manuscript to an editor by the 18th of March, it doesn’t make it easy. So for the duration of the games, I’ll be either looking like this… or this… GO CANADA!!!
Today I am continuing my Saturday theme on the writing life. This is the third in a series of posts about the writing tools in my work shed. I call the series Weapons in my Armoury. The first of the series was about the value of writing prompts, the second was about platform and branding, …
In a boot camp class for NANOWRIMO 2012, I first learned the power of a writing prompt. We started every session with a twenty-minute writing warm-up using a prompt the instructor wrote on the chalkboard. The very first prompt, on the very first class turned into the opening page of the novel I started that …
Happy New Year to you and yours. A belated, but nonetheless, heartfelt wish. A couple months have passed since my last post. Very bad on my part. At the time of my last post, I was in the midst of the Nanowrimo frenzy. I am happy to report that I successfully completed the 50,000 word …