Posts Categorized: writers
Hi, everyone! Things aren’t going very smoothly over here at Casa Owen so far this week, so here’s a repost for all you NaNo writers out there (and really, anyone who’s a reader will get something from this, too). November is just a few weeks away – good luck! Kathy ——————————————————- After shamelessly stalking eavesdropping…
Welcome to Masters of Mystery Monday, where each week we feature a fictional detective and examine his or her unique contribution to mystery fiction. This week, I am thrilled to have mystery author Jeri Westerson guest posting about her detective: Crispin Guest My Detective and Me By Jeri Westerson I have a secret relationship.…
Only 28 more days until NaNoWriMo! “NaNoWriMo,” short for “National Novel Writing Month,” takes place from November 1st-30th. The concept comes from Chris Baty’s book No Plot? No Problem: A Low-Stress, High-Velocity Guide to Writing a Novel in 30 Days. Be the first to like. Like Unlike
You’ve finished your first novel. Woo-hoo! Now you wait…for an agent, a publisher, or what have you (a lot of us are in the “what have you” phase). What’s next? Start on the next book. That’s a piece of advice I had heard over and over: Don’t stagnate. Keep the momentum going. Be the…
Writing Reflections I love my keyboard. It seems so long ago (yes, high school was very long ago) since I grudgingly, and awkwardly, did my touch-typing exercises at the typewriter: the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy hen… Something like that. Now, after years of composing at the keyboard, my fingers barely…
Not that kind of sex appeal. A more precise term for today’s post would be gender appeal, but the former is a great attention-grabber, don’t you think? It is widely acknowledged that women read more than men, but the disparity is startling. A 2007 story by NPR, “Why Women Read More than Men,” put it…
Welcome to Watercooler Wednesday! Today, I’m visiting romance author Jill Kemerer (hey, we writers are allowed to mingle among different kinds of authors, right? Shh, don’t tell the genre police). She’s interviewing me on her blog, with her Wednesday feature, “5 Easy Questions.” So, are they easy questions, really? Will any dark secrets be revealed? There’s…
For today’s post, I’m going off the map a bit. Usually, I blog about things that are mystery-related or somehow deal with day-to-day life in a historical time period, especially the 19th century. And I love those topics. However, Summer has burst forth, in all her growth, fertility, and beauty. She’s just begging for attention…
