Writing Roadblocks: Recovering from Life’s Left Hooks
Waiting for the words to come… Sometimes life delivers a punch that knocks you flat and it’s hard to get your feet under you and get back to the writing again. I don’t talk much about my personal life. Mainly because writing about that includes people close to me and I don’t want to violate their privacy. This was particularly true of my husband. I sometimes wrote poetry about him, but never firmly defined who the poems were about or that they were anything more than fictional. That seemed a good way to process what I needed to process and shield him. In February his condition took a downturn and…
Writing Challenge: Writing in the Next Dimension
Writing at Dawn in Nara’s Nook I’m not the first author to love writing in the tub. Agatha Christie plotted her novels wrapped in the warmth of a nice bath. Testing Linda Kellie’s new tub at my treehouse I wonder if her characters joined her for nice chats among the bubbles. But real world tubs have real world problems like soggy pages and runny ink. Laptops and tablets in the the steam–not so great. I found a virtual tub to be useful workaround. Now the physical experience is not quite the same, but once you are settled and you are chatting with the hero about whether to include a bath…
Book Love: Giving away a Kindle Fire and a Stack of eBooks
We love books at the Writer’s Colony in the virtual world of Nara’s Nook. Greyville Writer’s Colony at Nara’s Nook. I think the stack of books of books you see in this video might be dwarfed by the one I’m teaming up with Tibby Armstrong and a group of other authors to give away. Tibby is adding a Kindle Fire to the prizes you can win in this giveaway. I’m contributing a copy of The Tiger’s Tale. A few years ago Tibby talked me into logging into my first virtual world. Today I have my own grid for virtual worlds and authors who use them to inspire their writing and…