Finding the Muse

There is no muse. The End. Just kidding. But it’s true. What we writers experience as “The Muse” is a sense of accomplish-ing. Past tense accomplishments only feel good for about five minutes, or weeks, or months. But, eventually the happy wears off....

Not-Soy Milk

This is Ivory’s soymilk maker.  She got it for her b-day from her very understanding parents (a physicist and accountant who poured years of enrichment, travel, and 16 semesters of college/grad school into a child that currently takes great joy in goat poop and...

From Ideas to Submission–How I Write

Everyone has a ‘process’, but it starts with an idea. 1. Ideas for my books are always one to three words: A Ballet. A Train Ride. Day at the Beach. 2. Once I’ve settled on a subject, I decide if my main character a boy or girl and figure out what...

Manuscript Format

I know this is random, but the truth is, I have all these posts from another blog that I shut down exclusively about writing…and I HATE waste, so Saturdays for the next thirteen or so weeks will be devoted to writing.  If it’s weird, just ignore me, K?...