My bucket list is taking shape. Like I said last week, I’m all about new experiences, and the bucket list reflects that: Have coffee beneath the Eiffel Tower Spend a night in a castle See the English countryside Live in the English country side for a few months Spend a night in a super luxury…
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A Writer Turning 50: Sushi
I’m off schedule this morning. Normally, in keeping with my new ‘writing is a business’ attitude, I try to get these posts uploaded on Tuesday night. Unfortunately, Tattoo commandeered my computer for a ROTC project. (We only have one printer in the house and my computer is the one connected to it.) Then I overslept…
Writing Productivity 1
An Interview with Donna Alward I’ve said over and over that I want to learn how to write more productively. The best way to learn writing productivity is to talk with those writers who are far more productive than I. Therefore, I decided to interview a few of the most productive writers I know to…
New Year’s Day Musings
Happy 2014 everyone! I am supposed to be packing up Christmas decorations, but since everyone else in my house is either napping or watching college football, I decided to tackle my weekly musing instead. There’s something very cathartic about New Year’s Day cleaning. It’s as though the last of the flotsam and jetsam from the…
Happy Christmas Day!
From our family to yours, have a wonderful holiday. Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas
Chestnuts are roasting and the week’s unproductive. I know, last week I vowed to start thinking like a small business – and I plan to. Just not this week. This week has seen the perfect storm of distractions blow my way. First and foremost, it’s the week before Christmas. While I should be writing about…
A Writer Turning 50: Step One
Stop thinking like a stay at home mom, and start thinking like a small business. Sorry about dropping the ball on last week’s blog post. A house full of company over Thanksgiving had me behind on everything, and since I had a proposal due by week’s end, I had to focus all my energy on…
The Gratitude Jar
There’s a jar on my windowsill that I call the gratitude jar. I stole the idea from Facebook. (If you can call lifting an idea posted on Facebook as stealing.) Anyway, throughout the year, I’ve stuffed little notes in the jar reminding me of the many blessings in my life. Some are simple like “I’m…
A Writer Turns Fifty: New Beginnings
Blog about subjects you’re passionate about. That’s the advice media guru Dan Blank gives, and I have to admit, the advice makes sense. The more passionate you are about a topic, the more interesting your writing. Plus, if the experts are right and blogging is old news, then you’re basically blogging for yourself so…
G.M.A.T . TIME No, I’m not heading back to grad school. Been there, done that, thank you very much. G.M.A.T. stands for Get My Act Together. I’ve spent the past few days at a fantastic marketing conference put on by Dan Blank of We Grow Media, and naturally, as is the tendency after an energizing…