What I’m reading: Sweet Thursday by John SteinbeckWhat’s on the iPod: Summer Nights by Rascal Flatts I must be nuts. Riding the fumes of my business/vacation trip to Vancouver, I schedule Writers Worth Week. Then right smack in the middle of that miracle of scheduling – today – my mother arrives for a visit. I’m…
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Writers Worth Week, Day Two: Create Your Own Reality
What I’m reading: Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (finished it!)What’s on the iPod: Soul and Skin by The Clarks Thank you all for a fabulous start to Writers Worth Week yesterday! It was a great outpouring of support and suggestions. You’ve proven once again that the writing community is the best support system on the…
Welcome to Writers Worth Week!
I’m baaaaack….. Okay, I’ll admit to writing this before I left, but I know I won’t have the energy after the cross-country flight that gets in late in the evening. So forgive me that, okay? Today kicks off the fourth annual Writers Worth celebration! I have blog posts popping up all over the Internet this…
Things That Make My Head Explode
Ahhh….. Lent is over. I will now resume my usual level of skepticism and pointing out of major stupidity and disgust. I was getting used to the kinder, gentler life, but some things just ache for outrage and complaint. For example: AOHELL: Kathy Kehrli over at Screw You! pointed out this move by AOL, in…
Meltdowns and Ensuing Mayhem
By now I hope I’m sporting my “eh” lingo and fighting off the urge to eat peameal bacon. I’m also hoping we were able to score hockey tickets while in Vancouver, but I’m not holding out too much hope. A Twitter colleague sent over an interesting link. It’s an Internet-based meltdown of an author over…
The Reliability Factor
By now my time at the conference has ended. In two days, I hope to have secured enough work to sustain me through December. We’ll see. I was busy right up until the last hours before bed on Friday. I wanted to arrange for some posts, but I wanted to get things squared away for…
Free Wisdom for the Asking
The conference continues and I hope by now I’ve managed to secure at least one client. One client project pays for the entire trip. Two is gravy. I’m shooting for a banquet. Because of my absence, I wanted to leave you with some of the best blog posts from the last few weeks. Give these…
Monthly Assessment: April 2011
I’m not here, but that doesn’t mean we can’t have oodles of fun hashing over our monthly goals and near misses, right? So let’s get busy seeing where things are going right or wrong: Queries –I must have sent out fifty LOIs. I have 25 written down, but somehow I think I forgot to note…
Nice Day for a White Wedding…
Did anyone hear rumor about some big to-do over in Great Britain? It can’t be hockey, so I don’t know… The press coverage over this was a bit over-the-top, but at least it detracted from the birth-certificate fiasco. I loved the headline in the London newspaper yesterday: The Day America Took Leave of Its Senses….
What Smells?
What I’m reading: Sweet Thursday by John SteinbeckWhat’s on the iPod: Better Together by Jack Johnson I’ve always known I work better when my back is to a wall, but I’m surprising even myself this week. I got back revisions on the Web project, proposed and completed some blog posts, got some Writers Worth Week…