We all make bad choices at some point in life. It’s part of living a full life. Missteps are not always dead ends. I knew trying to force a story this summer would be hard. I just didn’t think my constant physical pain and anxiety would put up a block […]

Writer in Motion: Admitting defeat

Last week just sucked. I mean it could have been worse. If you followed my WiM and Twitter posts last year you already know I had some emergent uterine issues. I definitely wasn’t expecting to still be dealing with it.  But here we are. I had written off this year […]

Writer in Motion 2021 Week 1: The Zero Draft

While reading like a writer, there are bound to be some spoilers. If you don’t want spoilers for the book The Orchid Throne, by Jeffe Kennedy you might not want to continue reading this series. I will mark spoilers clearly with⛔️. The 5 promises In the beginning of a story there are […]

Reading Like a Writer, week 3

While reading like a writer, there are bound to be some spoilers. If you don’t want spoilers for the book The Orchid Throne, by Jeffe Kennedy you might not want to continue reading this series. I will mark spoilers clearly with ⛔️. Who’s the protagonist? After reading the first few […]

Reading like a writer, week 2

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One would think I already have reading like a writer down. I was an English Literature major after all. But that was over 20 years ago. After graduation I swore I would never read books to dissect them again.Yeah. about that. My dreams of being an Author are forcing my […]

Reading like a writer

Writers talk about manuscript length in word count because it is a common unit across all formats. I never really had an answer for how long my book is when a non writer asked.

Word count for non-writers