Finding Happiness


You never know when the muse will strike. Like an unwelcome relative, it usually shows up without warning. It could be during your son’s soccer game, while you are in bed at night, or while you are driving. Your moment of brilliance could be anything: it could be a snatch of dialogue, a plot development,…
November is just around the corner. In the writers world, that means NaNoWriMo. Yep, National Novel Writing Month, when a bunch of crazy writers decide this is the month they are going to write the novel that has been languishing about in their brains or hard drives. This is the month that writers take on…
“To keep your character intact you cannot stoop to filthy acts. It makes it easier to stoop the next time.” ~Katharine Hepburn
It is very hard not to become discouraged if the rejections start rolling in and it looks like the book you have worked on for a long time and given up a major part of your life for is not going to be published. After a few rounds of this, you begin to ask yourself…