#WritingLife

Back to Writing

Now that I have added "breast cancer survivor" to my bio, it's time to get back to writing. I've been doing the final edits on my current novel, Grandpa's Keys. I have to say, I'm loving what I wrote. Except when I had brain fog and wrote the same three chapters...
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Time for an Update

It’s time for a status report. In my last post, I announced I had been diagnosed with Stage One breast cancer. That’s still true. I was diagnosed. And I wrote about having the tumor removed surgically. ‘Tis true. The beastie is gone. After extensive meetings with my...
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Lessons Learned–And Broken

Almost any writer can tell you that the moment she comes out as a "writer," she will drown in a deluge of conflicting advice. Most of this is unwanted, or at least not requested. Some of the "advice" I received included "always write about what you know." I can tell...
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Surviving Writer’s Brain Cramps

Over the weekend I came down with a bad case of cramps. Writer's cramps. Brain cramps. Words got stuck, no matter what I tried. Then, I remembered a blog post I'd read just that week. Derek Doepker, an expert on ebook marketing who has become my guru (even though he...
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