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 →
The premise is simple: Blog every day except Sunday in April beginning with the Letter A and continuing until you finish with the Letter Z. Choose a theme or do random blogging — it’s entirely up to you. Don’t have a blog yet but want to play? Go to wordpress.com … 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 →
In November, I completed a decade of participation in National Novel Writing Month, affectionately known at NaNo. In my first attempt, in 2003, I wrote my first novel, Polar Bear on the Loose. I finished the first draft while deployed to Bahrain in the summer of 2004. Here’s a brief … Continue reading →
Things got a little slow tonight working on NaNo, so I decided to try a little “conflict” exercise. Too often, I avoid conflict at all costs, and it weakens my fiction. Tonight, I made up two characters on the fly who were told to remain on the couch by their … 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 →
I’m doing “backwards” NaNo* again. That means I start with a lot of words per day as my goal and work my way down to one word on the last day. Today’s goal was 3346. Every goal will be less for the rest of the month. So, today was, theoretically, … Continue reading →
Please join me as I begin a new phase in my writing life. If you’ve visited the site over the last couple of weeks, you may have noticed a new widget in the upper right corner of the blog or a new banner across the top. By entering your email … 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 →