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As I’ve been writing this book, names for characters have mostly popped into my head – I only named the main characters before I started in on things. I am now 28,022 words into the book, so the characters have some details around them, and in my head their names are their names. But I…

I’m having a hard time writing tonight, for the first time. I have a headache, born of poor sleep (the dog is not feeling well, and needs to be let out when I need to be sleeping) and too much time on a laptop today. My day job requires a lot of time on a…

So I’m writing a romance novel. There’s really no question, this is not going to be the next Great American Novel, nor is it going to revolutionize the industry and make a zillion dollars. It’s just a light-hearted romance, between two characters that I’m writing to keep my own attention while I’m spending all this…

I started this blog just a few days after I started my book. I did it because I read several articles about self publishing and they all said, be sure you have a website and way to capture an email list (I’ll add that mailing list item later.) I figured, having an established blog with…

So the company I work for recently had us “return to the workplace” now that the global pandemic is trending towards becoming endemic and vaccines are readily available here. And today something inevitable happened. I came home to find a piece of green spinach in my front teeth. Must have been there since lunch. Terrific.

As of right now, I’ve written the first 7863 words of my first book. Probably there are 200 good ones so far.