Category: Writing

If I love to write, why is it so difficult?

October Blog Post

  What I Learned at Killer Nashville Killer Nashville was fantastic this year. The conference occupies almost the entire hotel. The food is good. The town is—well, my experience is that downtown is full of…

News from Lake Chapala

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I Am Not A Story Genius

This is not a review. It is a personal reaction to Story Genius by Lisa Cron. I am on page 245 Chapter 5 “Stories Grow in Spirals.” I started reading this book on approximately August…

My Writing Retreat and Cruise

Several months ago, I was thinking Bouchercon or Killer Nashville? Then I listened to a podcast called Writing Excuses, and I saw an ad for a Writing Cruise. “Yes! That’s it!” I forgot about other…

New Writer’s Block Super Fear

Listen here: Read here: Just when I was getting to the point where I thought I had it beat—I could jump in and write without a lot of delay and drama and house cleaning—I got…

Why I Hate the IRS

We are in mid-December 2021. Christmas is a few days away. We just finished NaNoWriMo a couple of weeks ago. What timely topic have I chosen for this month? The IRS. We’re just over a…

Editor’s Block? Is that a thing?

I have writer’s block, and I write anyway. However, I don’t demand a high word count or a certain number of hours. I’m convinced that if I reached for more ambitious goals, I’d do nothing….

Writing Humor

  I was listening to a Brandon Sanderson  video, and he talked for a few minutes about writing humor. (Free recordings of his lectures at BYU about writing scifi are worth the time, no matter…