Survive—and Thrive!
I’m starting to dig out of my Black Hole of Lost Work. Meaning I have a little bit of me left over at the end of the day to think about my personal writing, and have begun making notes. And writing. A...
View ArticleThe Creative Person’s Guide to Time Management
As you know, my computer had problem a month ago; I lost a lot of information, including blog posts and notes. You might say I’m a little under the blog weather. :) But I’m getting by with a little...
View ArticleWhat Do Monkeys and Manuscripts Have in Common?
Being off my regular blogging schedule—because, I’ll remind you, my hard drive failed and I lost a lot of work—has affected me in other ways. So while my friends are faithfully supplying articles for...
View ArticleThe Book Deal That Wasn’t
Welcome to the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan! This is how it works: while I’m writing up new posts and trying to replicate the ones I lost, my friends are standing in the gap with original and...
View ArticleProduct Planting for Writers
I am learning so much from my friends! This week author Michelle Weidenbenner helps keep Read Play Edit ticking over while I recover from that nasty hard drive failure—and brings a new way to think...
View ArticleEditing From Both Sides of the Desk
A while back, editor Ramona Richards suggested she and I do a tag-team sort of post … and it never ran. That was a blessing in disguise, because now I really need it for the Read Play Edit Blog...
View ArticleDon’t Be Trolling: “A Typo Is Just a Typo”
Every so often I read something one of my friends has written and think, Man, I wish I’d written that! Which is exactly how I felt when I read this one from writer/editor Beth Bates. :) And with the...
View ArticleThe Voices in My Head
In this week’s guest post (we’re still operating in the Read Play Edit Blog Recovery Plan), author Norma Horton discusses character creation. The Voices in My Head Authors use a variety of tools to...
View ArticleFinding Your Genre: An Epiphany
In my ongoing Read Play Edit Rehabilitation Program, let me introduce my friend Christa Allan, writing about the importance of identifying your genre in a post repurposed from her own blog. Finding...
View Article250 Words That Will Make or Break You
This is it! The Read Play Edit Restoration Project is almost complete! My friends have been helping me out with new and recycled posts of their own while I wrote and rewrote new articles to run in the...
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