Scrivener Rocks!

I'm finishing (I hope!) edits on Released.      Checking the thread of pipes. (Ask my sister or read the book! It comes out soon!) Changing chapter numbers. I inserted chapter fourteen in between thirty-four and thirty-five. (Or I think it was there.) Then I had to go...

Calendars, Scenes, and Sequences

My editor recommended setting up a timeline for the current fiction I'm editing. The story line was really messed up. I had the scene where Mr. Main Character shot the guy before the scene where he chose the gun! (Maybe not that bad but just about!) So I made this...

Platforms are not for Sissies

I am baffled. If writing five novels isn't enough (plus around fifty short stories and articles and five children's books), a writer is told they need to build a platform. A what? Shoes? A stage? I'm struggling. I am told I shouldn't approach an agent or pitch a...