You all have stories you could tell. Your spouse gets laid off. A child becomes very sick. Someone has to have surgery. A hurricane hits hard. If you sat down to start the process of journaling or writing your story, where would you start? I know. Overwhelming. Most...
I can feel it brewing. It feels like a fist in my gut–twisting and turning–until it needs to explode. And somehow that fist connects to my eyes, because I want to weep. A monster resides in my chest and is pounding its way through to my thinking, my...
I'm just sitting here on my new back porch, eating lunch. The birds are twittering back and forth. The cat is lurking and probably stalking those birds. Temperature is a balmy 81 degrees. It's August in Nebraska. I'm not making this up! So why plot a book in small...
“I ought to sue you! I can, you know!” Clarence Timmelsen screamed at the warden. He stiffened and shuddered. Tears of rage stung his eyes. “You're kicking me out of prison to send me to a nursing home?” He shook his fist and growled....
Ask and you shall receive! But it took me two weeks to drum up the nerve to ask her. I'm so glad I did. I tried to talk myself out of it. She is so busy with being a newlywed, new mom, new book out, new … But I did ask her. This is what she sent: “A...
I love ‘I didn't quit' stories. As my son, Jeremy says, “Keep on pushing.” When you have a gift, you have to do it. Whether it is drawing motorcycles like my son, or writing books like me, or going to school, or working at a job that you know you are...
I'm tired and cranky and all out of sorts. And I have fifty chapters left in what I think is my 18th pass of edits. I'm sick of the story. I would rather clean the oven or gather junk for a trip to Goodwill. The sun is somewhere else. Not here anyway. Gloomy gloomy....
This is a peek at the book cover. I can't believe this is mine! Thank you Jane Dixon Smith! The design is perfect! And thank you Judy Krysl! The title is perfect! This is...
