Full Steam Ahead

I'm almost halfway through Draft #2 of GRUNSDAY now, and I'm not even that worried about the pothole I mentioned last week. I think ...

Stop for the Potholes? Or Drive Over Them?

Via Wikimedia Commons I know where the weak areas are in my WIP.  I saw them in the first draft, and I struggled with them again when I wrot...

Sharing Pictures via Flickr

If you haven’t already read the post by Roni Loren about a lawsuit over a picture she used on her blog, please do.  Yes, the chances of get...

WRiTE CLUB 2012 and Speed Dating for Your MC

On July 30, D.L. Hammons’s WRiTE CLUB will be back, bigger and better than ever.  If you don’t already follow D.L.’s blog Cruising Altitude...

When the Fish Don't Bite

It’s O’Dark Thirty in the Salerni house, and eight people are stumbling around, grabbing a bite to eat and mumbling at each other with as mu...

20/20 Hindsight

Now that I have finished the first draft of my WIP, I’m ready to start outlining it. I’ve never understood how writers outline their stories...

First Draft Finished!

There’s nothing like that feeling, is there? Late last Thursday night, I finished GRUNSDAY, the manuscript I started on April 2.  Fifteen we...