Blogging Basics: Get Connected
Photo Credit Networking isn't just for business after hours. It's gone virtual, bringing websites, tweets, and blogs together. Learning how to network will not only drive up traffic to your blog, it will also guide you to like-minded bloggers who can inspire, encourage, and support your efforts. There [...]
As You Come to the End…
Photo Credit The end. It’s not quite that easy. When I write a story I usually know how it’s going to end, but I have to figure out how to get it there. It’s all about building the tension, challenging your characters, until you’re ready to run the [...]
A New Season
You may have noticed that I missed a couple of posts last month. I feel a tiny bit guilty about that, but not terribly. July and August have easily been the most chaotic two months of my life, and that includes college finals, starting my first ‘real’ job, and getting [...]
Book Review: A Path Toward Love by Cara James
Katherine came home to forget her past.The last thing she expected is a hopeful future. Young widow Katherine Osborne returns to her family’s rustic camp on Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. She’s determined to live a quiet life, but her socialite mother is equally determined to push her into [...]
Recap: The Middle
Believe it or not, you can’t just jump from the beginning to the middle. You have to make a smooth transition. That transition has to both advance the plot while also guiding the characters down a non-returnable path. Confused? Don’t be. Read more here - The Middle, but first … [...]