Southern Fried Chicas

The kids are home this week for Spring Break. I don’t know how much actual writing I will get done–there are kids in and out of the house every ten minutes–and if the dog doesn’t like them, she goes nuts–which is every twenty minutes. Add to that the “I’m soooooo bored” floppiness of my boys [...]

So I spoke about my dry spell last month. I don’t know what drew me into it (but I can tell you I knew it was going to happen–I felt it creeping up on me but was powerless to stop it–which sounds silly to non-writers, but whatever… ). I do know what specifically dragged me out; one [...]

Watching ROMANCING THE STONE Saturday, I can remember watching it as a pre-teen and it made my heart pitter-pat in a way nothing up to that point had. I fell for Jack, wanted to be Joan Wilder and go on an adventure. I think it has as much to do with why I became a [...]

Some fellow writers were razing me late last year because I had become crazed with how much I was writing every day–I totally smoked the competition in a little contest we had going as to who could write the most. One thing I tried to explain was if I miss one single day it will [...]

This will be a short one–not that it wasn’t thought out…
Do you have a Critique Partner? I have had a couple over the years of my writing and I find them necessary. I know some authors don’t use CPs–and honestly there are times when it takes too long to go through the process depending on [...]