The Writing Process 2015: Finding the Right Details
If you’re new to The Writing Process 2015, these posts are a chance to share my journey through my latest novel, starting right at ground zero. Today let’s talk about finding the right details for your story. We’re about to pull our biannual house switcheroo. This means that we are entertaining a steady stream of visitors…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Happy Mother’s Day!
To mothers everywhere, I wish you a Happy Mother’s Day!
Read MoreNovels and Wildflowers
I’ve lived in Florida now for two and a half years. Although I started life here, too, so Florida immediately felt like home again. What do you look for when you choose a new home? Price, of course, but beyond that? In the past we’ve chosen by job and school district, but this time with…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Oppression and Tolerance
With all the tension around the killing of Freddie Gray by the police and the ensuing riots in Baltimore, I gravitated to these words by John Kennedy to remind me that tolerance is an active and compassionate decision to accept people for who they are and not to judge them based on what others believe. Tolerance…
Read MoreThese Are a Few of My Favorite Websites
This week I’m in California visiting family, so while I’m gone I’m going to send you on a scavenger hunt. Luckily there’s nothing to actually scavenge except fun and ideas. Like many of you I’ve found some great ways to waste time on the web. I’ve also found some great ways to improve my writing and…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Famous Failures
I wish I could have shown this video about famous failures to my kids when they were growing up, though it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at this whatever age you are and about once a month. No matter how talented and smart and beautiful and charming you are, life has a way of…
Read MoreThe Writing Process 2015: Point of View Means Us or Them
If you’re new to The Writing Process 2015, these posts are a chance to share my journey through my latest novel, starting right at ground zero. Today let’s talk point of view. What a busy book week. While I have created and considered a number of scenes for When We Were Sisters–the writing of which I’m sharing with…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Be Kind Whenever Possible
How will we practice kindness today?
Read MoreDo You Know the Real Emilie Richards?
I’m having so much fun working on my latest book. In fact I’m having so much fun writing actual chapters that I decided not to stop the flow this week to create another blog post. Luckily for me, my publisher did a short interview that they’ve just put up on line and along the way asked some…
Read MoreSunday Inspiration: Questions To Ask Before Giving Up
Have you ever come that close to just giving up? Or perhaps you have given up at some point in your life. Many people do. It’s a terrible feeling. You can get so deep into the hole of depression that you can’t see any way out. I came across this list recently that can be…
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