As I get ready to send my novel manuscript to my two readers (a writing friend and a friend of a friend), I am (slightly) faltering in my confidence in my work. Perhaps it was having to figure out a funky formatting problem. Maybe I’ve stared at the screen-pages-screen too much. Maybe it’s because I’m [...]
photo credit: M i x y Kids love to ask questions. So much so, that adults tend to tune them out after a little while. Okay, so if that happened to us as kids, did we just stop asking questions? Or did we stop learning how to ask? If you are trying to harness your [...]
photo credit: iwona_kellie Yesterday, after I spent a few hours and hours revising a long work of fiction, I hit a wall. I felt I couldn’t move the revision forward. But with three young kids and freelance writing, time set aside to revise is precious. I didn’t want to walk away, but I felt as [...]