Words are magic.
NOTE: This blog post was first published on the Click Clack Writing blog. Since I announced my latest book project, the biography of Dr. Reatha Clark King (to be released for sale in November, 2021), I’ve been getting tons of […]
Today, I’m kicking off a very special week. Since Friday marks the anniversary of my pup coming to America (we met while I was working in Panama), I’m celebrating the week with fun facts, photos, and even a couple of […]
You open a blank document and stare at the cursor in the upper left-hand corner. Blinking. Blinking. Asking what you want to write. Daring you to plunk out a few words on your keyboard. This blankness—the beginning of your story, […]
In this time of coronavirus-driven isolation and fear, many of us are lucky if we change out of the sweatpants we fell asleep in. We cope as best we can, pretending like everything is normal as we huddle inside, grocery […]
When the proverbial poop hits the propeller, people will inevitably attend to their base needs—the foundational items that make up the base of Maslow’s pyramid. These needs include shelter, water, air, and food. You’ve probably seen post-apocalypse movies in which […]
As part of the research for my Middle Grade work-in-progress, I’m learning as many survival skills as I can. My goal is to learn one skill per month in 2019. So far so…meh. To be frank, this past month didn’t […]
This year, I somehow managed to take down 40-ish books (not counting the ones I edited), despite the craziness. Amid editing, ghost writing, and building my book coaching business, I found a few moments here and there to let my […]
Below me, a sea of humans jostle for space, chat, sip on amber-tinted beverages. They spread across a trough-like expanse, facing an enormous stage with several thirty-foot high screens stretching across it. There are 8,000 of us. I’m standing against […]
July passed by in a blur of plot-building and scene-setting. For the third time in two and a half years, I cranked out 50,000 words of a single novel in a single month (actually 55,000, but who’s counting? …Me. I’m […]
National Novel-Writing Month (affectionately called NaNoWriMo) is every November. The goal is to write 50,000 words of a novel in just thirty days, which breaks down to 1,667 words per day. Sound tough? It is. But it’s not impossible. I’ve […]