For a while I’ve been struggling with my female main character. I didn’t ‘get’ her. That sounds kind of nutty since I made her up, but in the past, I’ve had characters come to me fully formed or from a previous book, so it was easy. This time, I was making her up out of … Continue reading Week Three: Breakthrough

Taika Waititi once said of screenwriting “Sometimes writing is opening up your laptop, looking at a blank page on Final Draft for about 8 hours, and then feeling sad, and then closing it. That’s still classified as writing.” And that’s a pretty accurate statement on my current efforts. I sit at the keyboard, stare at … Continue reading Week Two: It’s a hard slog.

I made it a goal to write more consistently this year and here's the update on how it's going. Week one is in the can. Here's how it went: Discipline is training yourself to do something and a habit is when a behavior becomes routine and automatic.  A task formed through discipline that becomes a … Continue reading Week One: Forming a Habit

I’m not one for New year’s resolutions, but I do love setting goals. For 2024 my goals are to eat right, exercise, and finally finish my book. I’ve been working on this for years. After my last book, I took a break to focus on my family and day job, but when I started to … Continue reading 2024: Goals