Category: The 3-Month Writer
Posts on writing a book in three months — the techniques, the discipline, and what becomes possible when you trade perfection for finishing.
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How a Green Cemetery Found Its Way into My Novel
In the third installment of my Rites of Passage trilogy, Rite of Reckoning, Lauren’s two close friends from childhood — and her mother’s neighbors — own a “green cemetery.” Virgil and Dixon have returned to their hometown after their mother’s death and have bought the homestead and land where their mother first fell in love.…
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Will Self-Published Authors Learn a Terrible Truth about their Readers? (Part 1)
My newest experiment Self-published authors abound these days, even ones with New York Times Bestseller on their resumes. Many are in for a surprise, both about what sells and…um…the honesty of some of their “readers.” I’ll discuss the latter in Part 2. In my own writing career–not to be confused with my career with the…
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The Treat: A Bearable Lightness of Being
The Treat’s been on my mind again. I can feel his energy all around me but things are different now. It’s lighter, cleaner, happier. He’s in a good place, or at least, in the beginnings of a good place For so long, I’ve felt him reaching out to me, his anxieties, his sadness, his wounded…
