Meandering #1 ... My mind is buzzing with all the information I gleaned at the Storymakers 2016 writing conference. I got renewed by being...

I feel so jazzed. I got back late Saturday night from a wonderful writing conference. They held it at a larger venue this year so there were...

The time has come to Help the  Elf . Poor Pete lost Santa's Naughty and Nice list and was only able to find the Naughty one. What a di...

Ever have one of those days? You've been plugging along, learning new things and trying to find ways to apply what you've learned wi...

I think, for me, the most insightful thing I learned came the day before the conference at the Publication Primer--and it came about beca...

I know. Now that A to Z is finished I had promised to get back to my personality series. However things have been nuts AND I'm going to ...

a man who is a stupid incompetent fool a buffoon in one of the old comedies; imitates others for ludicrous effect like a clown; ...

I'm going to the iWriteNetwork Workshop on January 21st .  Anybody else coming? It's that time of year to first look back...

After my epic fail attempt at NaNo last year I wrote this post . At that time I did not expect to try NaNo again. Um, I so did NaNo this y...

Source I've had the opportunity on two occasions now to attend a live critiquing session. The first time was in what they called B...

Go ahead. Describe what's happening in this pic. As I mentioned in my previous post, I took two classes from Traci Abramson  at Story...

I took two classes from Traci Abramson  at Storymaker. I'd taken a class from her at the UVU Book Academy , too. She's got some very...

This post was eaten when Blogger had indigestion. It was restored minus its comments and with distorted labels. When I edited it to correct...

Well. What do you know? My Thursday post about the Show, Don't Tell class at Storymaker is gone. I got an error message about missing po...

I attended a class by Josi Kilpack on pacing. Some of the elements might seem obvious, but other points she brought up were less so ... to...

I came back last evening after an incredible three days. I got to meet some wonderful people and learn skads about writing. I attended bootc...

I'm off to bootcamp this afternoon. I'm sure this one will be a little different from the one I survived a bazillion years ago. At t...

What a season this is to have so many writerly conferences and symposiums happening. It's exciting because there's so much to learn ...