You've written a play and you'd really like another set of eyes on it to make sure it's working as intended. But while beta readers for fiction works, such as novels and short stories, are fairly easy to come by, most writing forums and critique sites aren't geared...
One of the first days after my husband's parental leave ended, my parents offered to come over my house in the morning and watch both kids for me for a couple of hours so that I could have some time to myself. I was very excited. Sure, I'd have to still nurse the baby...
Here’s what March 2017 looked like in writing… Total Words Written This Month 50,869 words Average Words Per Day 1,641 words Monthly Goal I didn't set a goal since this was my first full month with the new baby and setting a goal seemed idiotic. Yearly Goal...
Maybe you've heard of Camp NaNoWriMo (the smaller, spunky sister event to the big November writing extravaganza) and were underwhelmed by the idea. Or maybe you've been meaning to try it out for years but something always seems to come up. Either way, with a host of...
Because of the newborn baby in my life, I've been looking for unconventional ways to get work done when I'm one-handed because I'm nursing, holding the baby or whatever. One of these experiments is the return of voice-to-text dictation which long time readers will...
I haven't talked about this online for a variety of reasons but you should know that all this time I've been blogging about this insanely stressful series of months I've been having, there's been an additional complication on top of everything else making it all that...
The best scary stories are the ones that are at least partly true... (This isn't one of those stories.) Coming Spring 2017 I've got a brand new short comedy to share with you this spring in a super spooky collection from one of your favorite play publishers. Wacky and...
Welcome to another exciting update in which stuff is going on! Apparently we just blew through a whole month without my noticing which would worry me more if I wasn't knee deep in the hoopla as those kids from Starship say (and by kids, I mean, probably senior...
This is the latest I've ever posted one of these monthly updates because life is still a hurricane here in Duckburg but I wanted to pop out of the duck blur for a minute and give you my numbers for December. Here’s what December 2016 looked like in writing… Total...
Regular readers know I do a monthly debrief of how my writing is going and have found it incredibly helpful in auditing my writing work and keeping me on track. I also make a silly little graphic for each month to serve as a title image for easy sharing on social...
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