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I learned something new the other day. Did you know there was such a thing as editing down verses editing up ? Me, neither. I read a...

Well, peeps, I'm writing. Not NaNo speed, but I am writing . . . on two stories, with a goal to finish them by the end of the year. ...

A couple of weeks ago, my daughter came to me and told me that she needs to know what happened next in my Goblin's Apprentice stories. A...

As I mentioned before, I have no clue how to write a picture book. When I attended the local SCBWI conference last Saturday, I was all ears ...

IS NOW FINISHED! I still have the second half of the book to deal with, but chapter 7, Double, Double, Toil and Trouble , was a doozie! It...

It took me less than 15 minutes to hyperlink the Weighty Wednesday and Foodie Friday posts to their respective pages. It helps me find them ...

On Saturday, I decided to read a book that I had downloaded as a freebie. No--I'm not mentioning the title or the author. All I will ...

I think many readers think that the story that they read is the first incarnation. Well, for most of us, it isn't.  Beginnings are the m...

At the beginning of August, I opened TROLL with the intentions of editing and publishing it by October 1. I read the first ten pages and c...

For those of you who think self-publishing is simply slapping your manuscript up on an e-pub site, let me be the first to educate you. Jus...

*sigh* Ah, the life of a writer.  Inventing all sorts of cool worlds, plots and situations only to have to chop most of the extraneous stuf...

Well, I don't know about y'all, but I'm already tired of the white stuff.  Not that I've driven in it--I haven't . . . m...

At the end of April, I finished FAERIE.  My intentions were to edit the story over the summer when my kidlet was out of school. --it didn...

I sent out the call for beta readers last Friday. Yes, it was a last minute SOS and I knew I would be pushing my luck getting anyone to res...

Okay, this week I'm getting serious about my second draft of MOGG. So far I've made it to page 16. Not a good thing. The first 30...

I think today's blog title explains it all. When do you know you've edited enough to improve your manuscript? Right now, I think I...