I’ve been keeping two blog tags in my back pocket for a day exactly like today when I’m ready to do something random and fun. 😉 This first one is the Ten Random Questions Tag. I was tagged by the [very patient] Allison Tebo like three months ago. *hides* Thanks, Allison! What is something you loved … More Ten Random Questions & The Blue Sky Tags
I’ve been nominated for the Liebster Award Blog Tag by Victoria Lynn! Thank you, Victoria! I love your blog, and I love your book. 😉 The Liebster Award is an award passed around from blogger to blogger. The word Liebster is German, meaning sweet, kind, nice, dear, lovely, pleasant, valued, and endearing. Victoria’s Questions of … More Liebster Award Blog Tag
Hello, everyone! Welcome to a celebration. What are we celebrating? Eeyore’s birthday. Many happy returns, everyone! No, actually we are celebrating 50+ followers on this blog. I wrote a status update on Goodreads last week asking for celebration ideas when I hit fifty followers. At that point it was “time to start thinking about it”. … More A Celebration of Y’all (& Giveaway!)
My brother Paul and I had some time on our hands as our family drove across town to a birthday party. We had notebooks. We also had goofy brains and the idea of doing unique interviews of each other. This post is the result of the questions I asked him. 😉 But first, an introduction … More Randomly Interviewing My Brother
I wrote the same scene twice last week, but other than that I haven’t found much time for writing. 😉 I have been doing a lot of beta-reading which has been very awesome! It’s been a little while since I’ve done one of these; so when I saw my fellow author and blogging friend Kellyn Roth … More The Selcouth Award (Blog Tag)
Should you write a seven book series? Why not? Jack Lewis did! Two big reasons it worked for him: character and setting change. In The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, we have four Pevensies and classic Narnia. Next is The Horse and His Boy with Shasta who barely visits Narnia and only meets the … More Think Twice Before Writing Seven
As my siblings gear up for NaNoWriMo, many questions, story ideas, last minute plot changes, and versions of synopses fly around the house. I help when I can with such wise words as “that was really cliche”, “what if you introduced them this way”, “I like the idea of Christmas”, and so on. One of … More Free Writing Book!
I was reading The Book Thief aloud to my younger sister (the one who bravely wore the crazy nerd glasses with me in this post). Mom had so kindly attacked it with white-out for me since I don’t want to expand my mental vocabulary in the profanity department. 😉 I spotted a word she had accidentally … More Two Sisters and White-Out
Remember the grand prize we had for the Five Fall Favorite blog party? The bright idea jar was my contribution, and it sat on my desk for a few weeks patiently waiting to be won. Gorgeous, isn’t it? This week I got to ship it to its lucky new owner. I knew right away that I … More Brown Paper Packages
Today, way up in the treehouse at a tiny picnic table, I got to spend one of my first brainstorming sessions with my younger sisters for their NaNoWriMo projects. I listened to their ideas, gave my advice on a few gingerbread people’s names, and then it was time to talk about story plot. I skipped the whole … More Brainstorming in the Treehouse
