This morning my thoughts are like the leaves that are beginning to fall here and there in my yard: one thought here, two or three over there, and when a wind blows through, scattering them in all different directions. It is dark this morning, of course, because I’ve gotten up before the sun yet again […]
Sep 1, 2013
Every Jot and Tittle
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You’ve seen the cliche: the writer staring out the window appearing to be idle while she’s actually thinking of the next part of her story. I sympathize with that writer. It could be me! I’m on the re-write of the third Darcy/Flora mystery and re-writes and critiques are pain-staking necessities. The Cozy Critiquers are giving […]
Aug 24, 2013
Lurking in the Shadows
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Dust off that dialogue! Exercise those verbs. Pull up a perplexing plot. And if a needed word doesn’t exist, create it! The path through the woods is broad, well-traveled, well lighted with no twists and turns. You know where the road began and you’ve got a pretty good idea of where it ends. If, however, […]
Aug 4, 2013
Meanderings
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Yesterday was one of those days when I didn’t do much besides sit at my computer. Although it looked like I was just sitting, believe me, I was working–hard! I went with a teenager named Jay as he faced a bully at school and agonized with his parents on how to deal with the problem. […]
Jun 26, 2013
Formula for Success
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“My tongue is the pen of a ready writer” (Psalm 45:1). Writing–the thing I love best, not to be compared with the people I love best, much more than writing, but it is the occupation, the activity, the fire that burns within. So my pen is certainly ready and so are the words for my […]
