I’ve heard about National Novel Writing Month for some years now, but always dismissed it, because I don’t need company while I’m writing. I don’t need the distraction of meetings, and I sure wasn’t interested in sharing my word count with anyone! Nor competing for a symbolic prize. But this year, I signed up, and […]
Building a Sticky Digital Relationship
At the beginning of September, I attended the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s Colorado Gold Conference. The best part, as with every writer’s conference, is meeting other writers and talking shop, talking about writing, and about books, and discussing, at length, the pros and cons of the Oxford Comma. One of the panels I went to, […]
Enjoy Mutant Giant Spider Dog!
I’ve recently been at the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writer’s Colorado Gold Conference over this past weekend, which is why my blog hasn’t been as active as it ought to have been. I did meet many lovely people, mostly authors, naturally, and was again overwhelmed by the amount of information to be gained by going to […]
Older Posts Not Working
A new online acquaintance Alicia Butcher Erhardt, kindly pointed out to me that my “Older Posts” button wasn’t working. I had noticed this myself, but had hoped that somehow the gremlins that caused this error would fix it and everything would be the way it was, just like in a fairy tale. But just like […]
Categories and Keywords – Kind Assistance
As with any indie writer, I’m always working on ways to make my work visible and discoverable. As mentioned in some previous posts, Let’s Get Visible and Write Publish Repeat had a great many good ideas for doing this. My goal is and was to implement those ideas that resonated with me. Being a 3 […]
Two Dirt Roads, the Dalai Lama, and Me
So this is what I would have wanted the name of my blog post to be: “In Which the New York Times Associates Douglas Preston with the Dalai Lama, High-Speed internet, and Henry David Thoreau All In One Sentence.” But it’s too long, so I went with what I went with. And here’s what it […]