Are you on Twitter? If so, you’re welcome to follow me. So many people are connecting on Twitter for microblogging fun, I recently even discovered one of my daughters there. Most of my Twittering is about writing, including my content-writing work at Squidoo.Com. I maintain a second account to talk about herbs and gardening: Linda’s Herbal.
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One Novel – Finally Ready to Submit!
After all these years, I finally have one novel revised enough to submit. That’s quite an accomplishment, for me. I never understood as I was writing it how intense my revision experience would be. I’ve been over that manuscript six times now. For most of the first year I was afraid to look at it!
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Twttrlists, a Contest !!! …and Writing
If you’re a regular reader of this blog you probably know by now that I make a bit of extra money every month by writing lenses for Squidoo.Com. What I’m making is not a living wage, but it is appreciated – very much so! Squidoo was originally created to have a venue for donations to charity, and many “lensmasters” (as we are called) are able to donate 100% of their earnings to whatever charities they like most. Others are actually earning enough to call this a great part-time job!
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Garden Ramblings on a Sunday Night
I planted nasturtiums in my garden this year. I planted a lot of other things too – but for now, let’s think about nasturtiums.
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Improvise!
Anyone who needs a new hobby – or some great laughter – might enjoy looking at Improv Everywhere. This is my kind of fun!
If You Don’t Like It, Change It!
This is my new motto: “If you don’t like it, change it!” I thought this up while I was doing the sixth revision of one of my novels. It occurred to me that learning to change the words or paragraphs in a novel is an art. When I first started revising this novel it was hard to change anything. It wasn’t until the third or fourth revision that I became utterly comfortable with deleting large blocks of text. Fortunately, this helped the novel to shrink from 51,000 words to about 46,000. It is a middle grade novel, so shrinkage is good!
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More About My Workshop on Creating an Impressive Writing Website
I’m amazed, thrilled, and relieved that my Muse Online Writers Conference workshop is being well-received. I’ve got just enough participants there to keep me busy without feeling desperately overwhelmed.
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Muse Conference – In Full Swing…
A year ago I volunteered to present a Muse Online Writer’s Conference workshop. My workshop is for helping writers create websites. I’ve never done anything like this before in my entire life, although I’m in my mid-fifties, and I was very apprehensive about the whole thing all year long.
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So many words, so little time
There’s so much to write about and so little time to just sit at the computer and get it all out. I love so much to feel that roar of satisfaction after writing something. I feel that most when I’ve just written great fiction. But how often does that happen for me anymore? I’m focused on writing non-fiction because that’s what is currently earning me some money.
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I’m a………. Giant . . . WHAT?
Today, October 8, is Cephalopod Awareness Day. Really!
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Sixth revision for The Scribe of Irohila…
Yes, I’m one of those people that can’t stop at just two revisions. I’m about to start the sixth and want to thank my dear critique group for giving me new ideas on how to make the novel better.
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I’m getting ready for the Muse Online Writer’s Conference, and my workshop!
I had so much fun at last year’s Muse Online Writers Conference, I volunteered to present a workshop this year. My topic is Creating An Impressive Writing Website.
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Haight-Ashbury Retrospective
One of my novels is about a girl who lived in the Haight-Ashbury during the sixties, so I regularly do research on everything having to do with the hippie movement. The novel, Far Out: The Journey to Oblivion…, is one I intend to revise during the next year or two. I wrote it in 2004.
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