Month: November 2018

Scheduling a Date With Your Keyboard

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Too often my writing had to be postponed due to a lack of time. Work is busy, the house needs repairs and I really could use a haircut. If there was time left at the end of the day, I would sneak in a few lines. It’s hard to get a groove going a few lines at a time. I had to decide that my writing was important, that it was worthy of claiming a […]

A Good Editor is Hard to Like

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A good editor will not be easy to like. A good editor will ask you to delete a section of your book that you believe is wonderful and necessary to the story. A good editor will tell you to add another chapter between chapter 4 and chapter 5. A good editor will ask you questions like “Did you even bother with spell check” and “Do you think this paragraph makes sense to anyone other than […]