Last week, we shared our Writing Caves. This week for our “How I Write” series, we chose to focus on our writing process. Not the big overall picture, that could be a book in itself, right? But rather the mechanics of sitting down to write and what rituals or routines we have to prepare ourselves…
Compared to the old house, my new writing space isn’t much of a cave. I’m currently set up in one end of the living room. At the old house, we’d converted the formal dining room into my office space. Here, the formal dining room is set up as a library. Go figure. One of the…
There have been multiple times in the last several years when I’ve almost given up because this writing thing as too frustrating, too hard. Other people made it look so easy, and I couldn’t seem wrap my head around the simplest things. I think one of the biggest dangers comes when a writer sits in…
If someone had asked me how to spread your wings a couple years ago, I would have had no idea how to answer them. One of the most painful things to do as a writer, or maybe it’s just me as an introvert, is to move out of an established comfort zone. This year has…
We moved to a new house this spring. We inherited citrus and almond trees. We planted a berry patch and a grape arbor. We have space for a garden. Life hasn’t been boring. There’s always something that needs done. Some of our plants have done better than others. Finding that right mix of fertilizer, water,…
Once a month, Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed host a bunch of authors who get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just be a writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on…
I spent some time this morning updating and fixing bad links on my Regency Resource page. I pruned out some duplicate links as well. I tried to find new hosts for dead links, but turned to the Wayback Machine for many others. As I add Regency topics to the blog, I want to consolidate the…
Once a month, Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed host a bunch of authors who get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just be a writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on…
Once a month, Bria Quinlan and Alexia Reed host a bunch of authors who get together and post excerpts from published books, contracted work or works in progress, and link to each other. You don’t have to be published to participate–just be a writer with an excerpt you’d like to share. For more info on…
Writing and Horses In a previous Regency Resource post, I briefly introduced different modes of transportation in the Regency Era. One mode that crossed class boundaries was the horse. From pleasure and sport riding among the nobility to the working horses pulling carts and wagons for the working class, it’s easy for modern authors to…