Guest Post for Reality Check, SheWrites.com

January 28, 2015

Check out my guest post, “Attention to Details,” on SheWrites.com. Post explores the importance of details in creating your fiction. Click here to read!

To Publish or Not to Publish – Exercises in Killing my Darlings

January 15, 2015

Anyone who has been following my blog for any time knows that I’ve been writing in some shape or form for most of my life. What you may not know is that for fourteen years of this life, I was a “Pastoral Coordinator” or “pastor” for two Catholic churches without a resident priest pastor. (Technically, […]

The Year in Review and Writing Goals for 2015

December 31, 2014

As I reflect back on 2014, it was rather uneventful, especially in comparison to 2013. For the first time in five years I didn’t have a family wedding to help with. In October of 2009 my son married, one daughter in September of 2010 and the other in July of 2011. My mother married in […]

Too Soon!

December 18, 2014

For so many years I would ask God, “when?” and God would respond, “soon,” much as a mother tells a small child to wait for Christmas. God’s soon could mean anything. Remember, “A day is a thousand years for God, a thousand years but a day.” The mother’s soon means one thing to the child, […]

Post NaNo Slump

December 5, 2014

NaNoWriMo successfully completed – check. Thanksgiving over and done, family members all safely home – check. NaNoWriMo slump – wait, no slump yet. What’s up with that? Last year after finishing my book for NaNoWriMo, I had a two week slump. I missed the challenge, the excitement of putting everything else aside in order to […]

A Day in the Life – my friends

November 12, 2014

I’m (Seamus) blogging while my mom continues to work on her novel for NaNoWriMo. She’s up to 20,000 words. Go Mom! Today I feature my friends. My best friend, Gracie. My neighbors on the left, Gracie and Izzie and the little pony we pass back and forth between the fence. My neighbor on the right, […]

Word Count Up-Date

November 7, 2014

My pages for this week – word count 14,150! I work out at Planet Fitness two or three times a week. When I ride the stationary bike, I’m routinely treated to FOX News and the Food Network. I’ve become enamored with Cup Cake Wars on the Food Network. Each time I watch it, there is […]

Do You NaNoWriMo?

October 31, 2014

Do you NaNoWriMo? Starting Monday, Nov. 3, I will be seated at this table, participating in National Novel Writing Month. I’m looking forward to it. There’s nothing like putting other projects aside to focus on writing 50,000 words in one month. Long before I put pen to paper, I’ve been writing in my head. It […]

When Writing Takes You Where You Would Rather Not Go

October 30, 2014

The leaves of fall are almost entirely gone as autumn prepares the way for winter, a place I would rather not go, at least not yet! In the same way, sometimes writing takes you where you would rather not go. Joy The character Joy, in my newly released novel Dancing on a High Wire, fights […]

Guest Post on Adventures in Editing

October 23, 2014

Check out my guest post on self-publishing on She Writes: Reality Check! Click here

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