I’m a True Crime Junkie
I’m hopelessly addicted and mostly loving it. When I should be cleaning, writing, talking with friends, paying bills, or going to sleep, I’m watching or listening. Sometimes I fall asleep; other times I freeze, eyes…
I’m hopelessly addicted and mostly loving it. When I should be cleaning, writing, talking with friends, paying bills, or going to sleep, I’m watching or listening. Sometimes I fall asleep; other times I freeze, eyes…
The Mexicans who are my friends, neighbors and employees are in general a happy lot—not because they have a lot, or even enough sometimes. Perhaps their happiness is a result of their attitude and…
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…
Shall we say they’re from Sweden? Denmark? Finland! I’m reading The Witch Hunter by Max Seeck (creeeeepy—police procedural, not horror—at least not the supernatural type), which takes place in Finland, so let’s say Finland. Both…
Living in a small town in Mexico is wonderful in many ways. More emphasis on family, kindness, helping others, taking time, for example. And it has its charms: wall murals all over the place,…
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….
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…
Oh, my…I’m so confused!!!??? All these calendars and all these methods! I need stickers! And a Happy Planner! Doesn’t that sound good? And a Traveler’s Planner. Or maybe a Planner Perfect! That sounds good, too. But…
I recentlay read two books on writing, and they couldn’t be more different: Save the Cat! Writes a Novel by Jessica Brody and On Writing by Stephen King. King is a panster; Cat! gives the…
The good news is: I “won”!!! That is, I–along with many others–wrote 50,000 words of a novel during November. Last year, my first year of making this attempt, I started off with enthusiasm, but with…