Milestones

Milestones

If you’ve been with me awhile, you know how I love to mark and celebrate milestones in my writing life. I see them as signs of progress–both in the project and myself as a writer. And when there are milestones in my family life, it always gets me thinking....
Sweet Progress

Sweet Progress

I’m SO happy to report that I finally finished reading through the first half of my YA and marking it up (see pic)! I have arrows and marks and cross-outs and new stuff written in the margins, but I now have a clear picture of what scenes I need leading up to...
Trusting in Intuition

Trusting in Intuition

Last Saturday I attended a Nonfiction Summit hosted by the Rocky Mountain Chapter Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators. I arrived sans ideas—I was going purely to learn and be open to whatever might come my way. I have published some...
Fail? or Something else

Fail? or Something else

Two weeks ago I wrote about not making time for my novel. I pledged to work on it every day, even if it was only for ten or fifteen minutes. I’d like to say that I didn’t write a post last week because I was deep into working on that book. But I...
Novel? What novel? Write it!

Novel? What novel? Write it!

Because I’m doing so many things I love in addition to writing, I will often go more than a few days without working on my YA. I don’t like this because when I do get back to it, I’ve lost momentum and have to get it back by re-reading previous...