To Write or Not To Write . . .

Please forgive the cheesy Shakespeare reference.  It’s just that I’ve been feeling a little Hamlet-y lately.  You know, troubled, indecisive, grumpy. . .borderline insane.
Actually, I feel much better after making a very difficult decision. I am taking a vacation from writing. A sabbatical.  A breather.  I’m going to look at my situation in January and [...]

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The Second Fifty Words

I promised I would report back when I’d gone through the second quarter of my manuscript, so here I am.
The good news is that the writing improves as I move through the book.  This makes sense.  Although I didn’t write the first draft in a strictly linear fashion, I did move generally from beginning to [...]

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I want to throw my manuscript in the trash.

I have a little list of blog topics, a few drafts saved to polish up.  But this post was completely unplanned. It arose last night as I went through the first fifty pages of my 200+ page manuscript.
I’ve already done one major revision — I rearanged the scenes to get the main conflict started sooner, [...]

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Going for Gold

Like many of you, I’ve been watching the Olympics this week. Talk about excitement! Michael Phelps and Nastia Liukin, they take my breath away.
I was thinking this week as I watched how these athletes have worked so hard to make their dreams come true. But the truth is, they were also blessed [...]

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