When an athlete prepares to enter a competition or join a team, he or she trains hard. They eat right. Consuming the right calories is as important as doing the right exercises for a serious athlete. Scholars train their minds before taking intense evaluations. They...
After a lot of mind sifting, I’ve come up with my 2020 word of the year: WISDOM. As I reflect on the words I’ve chosen the past four years, I realize how powerful and central they’ve been in my forward movement as an Indie Author. 2017—FOCUS In 2016, I finally...
We’ve all been there. Mid-way through a novel, we draw a blank on a character’s hair color and realize that secondary character has been pregnant a little too long. So, how can we keep it all straight? I’m sharing what I do as we examine how to track timelines and...
You’ve typed The End. Congratulations! Celebrate! Live it up! Now you send it straight to the editor to fix, right? Wrong. Let it breathe or marinate or whatever term you’d like to use. The length of time for this varies for different writers. Some need to set it...
This past weekend, I attended the tenth annual Berries, Bridges and Books Writers Conference, put on by the Creative Minds Writers Group in Ponchatoula, La. It was a day full of encouragement, lessons learned and connections made. As I reflected on the speakers and...
You’ve got a style unique to you. A fashion style. A work style. A social style. So many types of styles! My question for you is: do you know what your style is? And, if you do, have you learned to embrace it? These are some questions I’ve been answering for myself...
