• Sundry Posts

    Ready for Retreat

    It’s nearly the middle of the month so I thought I would do an update on the happenings in my life. I started a challenge of writing a flash fiction story daily for the month of June. As of this moment I am right on track. I have discovered that I like the stories I am creating in this month. Several of them have a lot of potential. I’m not stopping to edit them but hopefully after June I will be able to. I am also getting ready to head out to this writing retreat. I’ve never done this before. I’ve been to one day writing conferences but this one…

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    Small Moments

    This week Chuck Wendig wrote a piece and posted it on his blog, Terribleminds.com, called “Dear Writers: None of us Know What the Fuck We’re Doing.” If you can get past the language (and it’s not horrible) this is a fascinating piece. You can find the entire thing here. As I’ve put together my blog I’ve struggled with how to create, build and market myself. I’ve taken classes and read endlessly, I’ve even bought a book about blogging for writers. I’ve wondered about the “right” way to do this. I’ve wondered that about a lot of things. This blog post spoke to me like none other. I could see things…

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    Avoiding

    I love writing. I think about it, I dream about it and I do it. Except when I don’t. Except when it becomes another chore to be completed. Except when I will do anything to avoid writing at my desk. I mean Facebook has never looked so good. Creating a blog has been on my radar almost since I began writing seriously. By writing seriously I mean: writing every day at a scheduled or mostly scheduled time, setting goals and actually submitting work. Building a blog was something I knew nothing about. I’d seen blogs I liked and ones I didn’t but had no idea what I was in for. …