Welcome regular Merry Go Round Blog Tour readers and April A-Z Challenge readers. The A-Z Post is titled “Quarry,” and if you’re allowed to read adult themes, I think you’ll enjoy meeting two characters from Granite Hill in today’s post. If you’re not, stick around and check out the blog tour … Continue reading →
Welcome back to another edition of the Merry Go Round Blog Tour. This month we’re discussing what makes us unique as a writer. Why don’t we discuss what make me not unique as a writer? As in the problems slush pile readers endure. I have a terrible tendency toward narrative. … Continue reading →
Welcome to February on the Merry Go Round Blog Tour — good to see you here. This month’s topic is villains. You have to have one, or there’s not a story to tell. The villain I’m talking about this month is a nasty one — it has a prominent place … Continue reading →
Welcome to 2014 and the January edition of the Merry Go Round Blog Tour. We’ve been a little slow getting started at the Tour. We wish we could say we partied too heartily on the New Year, but more somber things contributed to our slow start. We’re on our feet … Continue reading →
Welcome back to another edition of the Merry Go Round Blog Tour. This month we’re focusing on our favorite things. I have a long history of having a lot of favorite things. Since we’ve just finished Thanksgiving (in the US) and are rounding into the Christmas and end of year … Continue reading →
It’s a new year, there must be a lot of new projects, right? Not really. I have two writing goals for this year: Finish revisions of Polar Bear on the Loose (which includes finishing the How To Revise Your Novel class) and win National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) in November. … Continue reading →
This month on the MGR Blog Tour, we’re looking at either our favorite writing books or our sources of inspiration. I’ve practiced extreme procrastination on writing this post — to include going on vacation so I didn’t have to think about it, but, alas, I’ve returned from vacation, and the … Continue reading →
Do I have researching routines? I guess the most routine thing I do is pull out the handiest device I possess with internet access and do a search. For about 80-90% of the questions I have, I obtain a satisfactory answer via this methodology. For other questions, I turn to … Continue reading →
Welcome to August’s Merry Go Round Blog Tour. Are you motivated? I can’t hear yooouuu. For the record, I HATED that when I was a member of the military. I attended Academic Instructor School at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas in the fall of 1983. The Academic … Continue reading →
Welcome back to another month of the Merry Go Round Blog Tour. Our detailed discussion this month centers around on-line writing communities, or, more generically, community. I’m going to reflect a little bit on both this month. Specifically, the bulk of my on-line writing community experience has been with Forward … Continue reading →