Category: reflections

There is a weekly coffee klatch in a nearby town on Thursday mornings where we talk about all sorts of things. Someone mentioned that it was three year’s since her… Read more »

Since going to the beach in South Carolina appears to be my winter routine, I want to be productive during that month, or two. But I also want to spend… Read more »

I wasn’t going to do NaNoWriMo last year, so when I decided to go ahead and do it, I didn’t want a month of crazy writing to interfere with my… Read more »

It might seem that the whole point of NaNoWriMo is to create a novel in a month, or at least to write 50,000 words, and that is great to start…. Read more »

Last November, I was even more of a rebel than usual in that instead of having a goal of writing so many words per day, my goal was ‘reading for… Read more »

While working on the outline for the next book in my series, I recognize that it was taking a fair amount of time for the story to move along. My… Read more »

I have decided to save myself the tedious task of producing a paper back version of my novels. I use the tool scrivener to write and edit my novels. This… Read more »

One year ago we flew to Madrid and on to Malaga. What a difference a year can make. We no longer intend to be nomads. It’s not always easy to… Read more »

I’m a total rebel this year for NaNoWriMo, so am counting time spent, not words. I’m mainly reading, with a little writing, but deliberately don’t want to count my usual… Read more »

I have an idea for doing nano this year and not spending my time just trying to get a huge word count full of things I don’t care about. I… Read more »

As happened to many people, our plans changed in 2020. It has influenced my writing in that I didn’t gather material as I had expected to, but I had plenty… Read more »

I struggle with writing the back of the book blurb for my novels. Mainly because I rarely read them myself since so many spoil the book. They often try to… Read more »

Once upon a time, I used to wake up at 4 a.m. on November 1st to start writing a novel for NaNoWriMo. It was exciting, but often cold. Well, this… Read more »

After our house had been on the market for almost a year, we decided that it might well take another year to sell. We decided to live our lives as almost… Read more »

When I mentioned that I was revising my Edinburgh series, and that book one took place in twenty-four hours, a friend said, “It must have a lot of flashbacks.” It… Read more »

While I had made the decision to move from KatherineLato.com to LatoGlicklich.com several months ago, something was holding me back from going live. It was comforting to play around knowing… Read more »

As I sorted through stuff that I had accumulated while living in the same house for over thirty years, I pondered what to do with my written journals. I mainly… Read more »

As I was revising one of my novels two years ago, I realized that the name of a company that was up to no good was my future daughter-in-law’s last… Read more »

While emailing on critiquecircle.com about how to add a scene to a written novel, I realized that I have a process. When I get stuck, I write an overview of… Read more »

I use critiquecircle.com to improve my writing, but occasionally I encounter someone that I find rude. I don’t tolerate rudeness from strangers on the internet; life is too short for… Read more »

Four years later and I’m polishing up the novel where my main character visits this café/bar. It’s neat to see a place and think, ‘this would make a good venue… Read more »

While on a February trip to Texas, I made plans to visit the Ransom center. It required applying and watching an orientation video, then when I wanted to see the… Read more »

The first time I did NaNoWriMo, National Novel Writing Month, I joined at the end of October, so didn’t have much time to prepare. Besides, the guy who started the… Read more »

Having too much time to write might seem like an oxymoron, but there’s a chance that I’ll not have a paying job in November. The last time that happened, I… Read more »