I can’t seem to stick to my goal of a weekly blog, but I’ll keep trying. However, while I’ve been neglecting this blog, my writing life has been very busy indeed. First, I’ve finished the text and taken the pictures for the second book in my Gator McBumpypants series. I’m pretty sure I’ll stick withContinue reading “Busy Writer’s Life Update: Gator McBumpypants 2 and searching for an agent”
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Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise
I am excited to announce that my children’s picture book Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise is now available on my create space estore. It is also available at amazon and can be purchased for Kindle. Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise is a full color picture book about a friendly stuffed alligator who investigatesContinue reading “Gator McBumpypants Hears a Scary Noise”
Finishing – Making a Picture Book
Continuing with my theme of finishing what I begin, I’ve been spending most of my time finishing the picture book I started in January. At the moment, I sit in the 24 hour waiting period of review from Create Space (Amazon) before I can get to work on my ebook. While I wait, I thoughtContinue reading “Finishing – Making a Picture Book”
To finish what I begin – Tips for finishing a draft
With all of the kids spending as much time in the lake as they could before heading back to school, I must have become nostalgic for a moment because I suddenly remembered something from my blue bird (tiny campfire girls) days — “to finish what I begin.” It really stuck in my head so IContinue reading “To finish what I begin – Tips for finishing a draft”
Finding Fresh Eyes
I had forgotten how inspiring a week away from home can be, but my recent trip to Alaska was exactly what I needed to get back to my work with fresh eyes. A fun side note: I have now been to every state in the union!
Finding the Balance: Critique and Creativity
In a way I’m lucky. I grew up in a hyper-critical environment and still chose to perform in public. However, criticism gets old and it sticks in the psyche more than praise, which, sadly, is part of human nature. To be a writer, especially in the world of anonymous online comments, we have to prepareContinue reading “Finding the Balance: Critique and Creativity”
Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity
It’s almost time for me to print out the rough draft of my novel, to read through the whole thing with fresh eyes, as if I just brought it home from the bookstore. But first, I have a few more goals to accomplish: I WILL finish reading Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie (I was bornContinue reading “Getting Words on the Page – Three Tools to Increase Productivity”
Exploring the Senses – Finale: Using sensory information in your writing
Through this series on exploring the senses we (you and I) have explored all the major senses and more. We’ve experimented with how sensual stimuli trigger memories that can inspire writing and played with different ways to add sensory detail to our writing. Now, I want to talk about when and how to use thisContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Finale: Using sensory information in your writing”
Exploring the Senses – The Sixth Sense
Though everyone agrees on the five major senses, neurologists and perception researchers believe there are more. Some think the main senses should be broken into sub-genres. Others believe we have many sensory cell types leading to other senses including: balance, pain, temperature, time, body part location, and sensing internal organs. However, when we talk aboutContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – The Sixth Sense”
Exploring the Senses – Touch
Touch is a sense most of us take for granted – until we’re lying on satin sheets, or picking glass and gravel out of a knee – but touch is sensed through the skin which is the largest organ of our human bodies. The sense of touch is based on detection of mechanical energy, orContinue reading “Exploring the Senses – Touch”
Experience Writing 