Chapter 7 woes
I was working on my rewrites this morning when I discovered that I had somehow neglected to ‘really’ write Chapter 7. Not that there are no words, there are plenty… Read more »
Category: Writing
Can I enjoy what I hate?
It’s odd. I am in the point of my book that I hate–when I have to check that everything flows and that I use the right tenses consistently throughout. It… Read more »
Revised first chapter
The time has come for me to begin at the beginning of the “Department of Temporal Adjustment” and read it all the way through, making changes as I go. I… Read more »
DTA – done!
I’m happy to say that this morning I finished the Department of Temporal Adjustment (working title)! It is such a satisfying feeling to complete a book. This book represents 2… Read more »
Which came first?
Sometimes, it is very difficult to separate fact from fiction. There is a part in my new book where the main character gets trapped in a room. No matter how… Read more »
First Annual Timberland Olympia Book Fair
Wow! That about sums up my first visit to Olympia, and the Timberland Olympia Library. How can there be so many nice people all in one spot? At the hotel,… Read more »
Excerpt from the DTA
Just for the fun of it, I’m going to share the entire first chapter of the book I’m currently writing, “The Department of Temporal Adjustment”. This is a very rough… Read more »
A funny thing happened on the way to the library.
A funny thing happened to me yesterday. I had spent most of the day preparing for my talk at the Olympia Timberland Library, stressed about those 10 tiny minutes as… Read more »
Failure–my friend
I’m not afraid of failure, and why should I be? Every failure, every mistake, every struggle makes me a stronger person, or at least they can if I take the… Read more »
Excerpt from DTA (Chapter 15)
This mornings writings (draft): The first thought I become aware of when I regained consciousness was that I must have bumped my head on something as I entered the janitor’s… Read more »