Sometimes when you're writing fiction, you'll get to a place where a character does something unexpected, and you'll want to fi...

I mentioned in my post on winning NaNoWriMo this past year that one thing I noticed in writing the second book in my mystery series is how...

First of all: Woot! I hadn't been planning to do National Novel Writing Month this past year, but Tree of Write On, Mom! asked if I...

Links to share, from Writing Tidbits : Validating for Rich Pins for Pinterest: Blogger Xpertise Make your pins stand out. Pinte...

Want some novel reading to go along with your Olympics watching? As the women's figure skating finals come into view, read up on the wo...

This is one in a series of profiles of our National Novel Progress Month authors and their works in progress. If you'd like to submit ...

I recently read a book in which the three main male characters' names were Rafael, Richard, and Robert . Dude, I could not keep those...

Links to share, from Writing Tidbits : Tracking Your Submissions - Triple Tracking Method -- Writers Write(R) To collect better data, crea...

At the same time as I am reading Virals , a young adult novel by Kathy Reichs , I have happened upon this YouTube video from Feminist Freq...

Actor Emily Deschanel and author Kathy Reichs on the set of Bones (image courtesy Fox) I just checked out Bones Are Forever , by Kathy ...

Once again, I bring you: review for a book (and movie) no one's talking about anymore! Whee! Good thing I'm not a newspaper. The He...

Amazon Kindle 's been yelling at me lately that I need to update my blog or get off the pot (not in those precise terms, perhaps). Herew...

Introducing National Novel Progress Month , or NaNoProgMo in cool-people terms! This is a joint undertaking of encouragement and motivati...

Who's doing NaNoWriMo this year? If you want to join the nonsense of writing a whole novel (50,000 words) in November , you can start...

I thought I'd throw up (blargh! just joking) a little review of The Secret Duke , by Jo Beverley , before I forget what I think! This...

I'm taking Rachel from Common Places' advice and just getting my thoughts out . I apologize if this review sounds a little rushed —...

I'm with Dori on this one. The most important rule of writing , particularly something massive like a novel? You've gotta just keep...

Link up at Wordless Wednesday and 5 Minutes for Mom

NaNoWriMo.org interviewed Ian Dudley, founder of the Kid-Friendly Write-In . I've so far attended one write-in , in which I didn...

I was meaning to blog a few days ago about how upbeat I was feeling about NaNoWriMo. I really should have done it then, because now my ballo...