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 […]
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 […]
“My imagination isn’t what it used to be.” Amanda and I are standing around a kitchen island, catching up at a friend’s winter party. Most of the guests know each other through a local writing group, so talk often turns […]
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 […]
You wouldn’t know it by paying attention to this particular blog (sorry–resolving to be more consistent!), but I actually write well over a hundred blog posts each year. As a ghost writer, I am the voice of several different small […]
The excitement of a new writing project can buoy you for a while. You are pushed forward by the thrill of embarking on a new adventure, a brand new path. But, after a while, you may find yourself slowing […]
Every November, thousands of mentally-imbalanced people across the globe commit to writing a novel in a single month. That’s 1,667 words each day. 50,000 words, total. What kind of lunatic would attempt such a thing? Unless you’re a full-time fiction […]
Memorable writing is provocative writing. It challenges our thinking; it creates emotional swells. Memorable writing puts us in a place and allows us to see, smell, touch, taste the surroundings. We’re there. We’re feeling the feels. We’re inside the […]