Category: reflections

I just made my first post on the Amazon Kindle forums–it was one for help in improving book descriptions. Now, I hate book descriptions. Most of them tell too much… Read more »

I feared it would happen. Now that I’m making my own covers and uploading the PDF file, I’m wanting to do more complicated covers. I’m a writer, why am I… Read more »

I struggle to write the back of the book blurb, largely because I don’t like reading them myself. I find they often give away too much about the novel, spoiling… Read more »

I started revising a novel that I haven’t looked at in almost two years and picking it up has been like looking at photographs. I can recall so many conversations… Read more »

I’m one fifth of the way through the second draft of ‘Yes, Or?’ and have a chapter up on critique circle this week. I’m glad that I used Scrivener to… Read more »

Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to meet people and when they ask what I do, I say, I’m a fiction writer. Often people try to tell me the ‘great idea’… Read more »

I think writing 10,000 words a day isn’t sustainable, and more than 10K a day is insane. I’ve done it for three days, and had hoped to continue for a… Read more »

Funny. Most of the advice about using social media discusses how important it is to comment on other people’s blogs with links back to your blog. This is how you… Read more »

As I sat in Descartes coffee shop on Michigan Avenue yesterday, sipping a spicy coffee drink that comes in a soup mug, I saw flower boxes, huge urns of flowers,… Read more »

In my life, I’m usually trying to minimize the conflict. But in my writing, I need to add more. Someone gave feedback on the entire novel of ‘The Shortest Route’… Read more »