I got a gripy email for last week’s post that pissed me off so much, I’m going to devote this entire post to ranting about it. Here’s what this writer had to say to me, in part: “I find it irresponsible that you would take such a stand [that you can have a successful writing […]

I have this insane idea that if I could just herd all the ideas in my head, throw them all in a field somewhere, pick one out of the lot and focus on it for the rest of my life, say, writing novels exclusively, then I’d be happy. I’d have a very writerly routine—get up […]

A few months ago, I was feeling deflated. “There is no big win,” I said to my husband. “It’s not coming.” My husband nodded in agreement. Despite our collective pragmatism about life in general, my husband and I are dreamers. We have big grand goals for our lives, of writing big books and screenplays, of traveling […]

The day after I finished my novel two weeks ago, I started a new book, a book on writing. As of this morning, book #4 is finished and I’ve just written the specs to send to the cover designer. I’m looking at launching as early as next month. So, what happened? Why did I write […]