Patience, Grasshopper

I haven’t posted recently for a couple of reasons. The first is I love my picture of me and Buckeroo (that’s my deer’s new name as he’s the smallest of the three bucks who visit us, unless you count Nubby, who is still just a baby) and I like...

Patience, Grasshopper

Turns out all those agents, editors, writing teachers, critique partners, articles, books, etc. were right when they said you should let a manuscript sit for a while. And I don’t mean a week, either! Last June I sent my finished manuscript off to my agent...

Books with long titles…

I’m using WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL WORKBOOK to help me flesh out some of my characters on a revision I’m working on right now. I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this workbook (and the regular book) and credit it with much of the improvements in my writing in the last...

Santy’s got nothing on me! — UPDATED PICTURE!!!

This deer just let me feed him carrots right out of my hand! I know what it feels like to have a deer nibble my fingers. I love our new house!!!!!! Happy Holidays, everyone! P.S. Quite by accident, I figured out how to post these pictures so if you click on them they...