by DianneSalerni | Sep 12, 2016 | pantster, WIP
I’ve been spending a lot of time with my scribbling notebook this month. This is the place where I work out plot problems. Some people use white boards, some use index cards or Scrivener. For me, working it out visually and long hand is the way to go. I hang on to my...
by DianneSalerni | Sep 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
An interesting conversation has come up several times recently with friends and family members, and I was wondering what my blogging friends thought. Is it okay to track the locations of your family members by their phone? Our family uses Life 360, an app that lets...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s been a whirlwind summer for me, and from what I’ve been seeing on your blogs, the same is true for most of you. Don’t you think we all need an extra summer to recover from the regular summer? (Maybe a secret summer? Like a secret extra day?...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 22, 2016 | home
In July we hired a contractor to paint our stairwell and upstairs hallway, strip the wallpaper from our upstairs bathroom and paint it, too. (I want to note right here that his business card said: Painting and Wallpaper Removal.) He was supposed to start the Monday...
by DianneSalerni | Aug 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
Sorry I didn’t get around to any blogs last week. My family and I were vacationing on the remote, paradise island of St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. On arrival, we learned that the drinking age in the Virgin Islands is 18, so my daughter Gabbey (age 19)...