A Busy Month Ahead!

How do you like the deviled eyeballs my husband made for my daughter’s Halloween party? Awesome, huh?I’d like to wish good luck to everybody participating in the NaNoWriMo Challenge starting tomorrow! I don’t participate in NaNo, because...

Doctor Who?

My daughter Gabbey will be just plain awesome as the Eleventh Doctor this Halloween. I am darned impressed! Can’t you just see her delivering one of the Doctor’s fabulous quotes: “There’s one thing you never put in a trap — if...

Six Word Summary

Sometimes it pays to be brief.So, let’s see how many of my writing/blogging friends can summarize one of their works in six words! The rules are: The summary sentence has to have a subject and a predicate and (of course) exactly six words in it.I’ll start you off with...

Spooktacular Giveaway Hop

Wanna win some prizes? This Halloween, there are literally hundreds up for grabs!I Am a Reader, Not a Writer and The Diary of a Bookworm have teamed up to host the Spooktacular Giveaway Hop — starting October 24 and ending October 31 — and there are about...

In Defense of Pantstering

While researching outlining and pantstering for an upcoming workshop, I discovered there are countless websites and blogs about outlining your novel. When it comes to pantstering, however, all I could find were bloggers explaining what it was – and why they never use...