Today, guest blogger Dorothy Skarles continues her memoir series with another sharing of her own; her personal experience with widowhood–the great singles maker. Once again, she walks her talk, following the advice she gives her memoir students: “Write about your feelings. It helps.” Okay, I think, as a friend and fellow writer, writing about one’s personal experience is one thing, […]
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Back Up your Blog!
Have you backed up your blog? I’m talking about your posts AND your template. If not, do it now. As they say over at WordPress.org: Your database “…contains every post, every comment and every link you have on your blog. If your database gets erased or corrupted, you stand to lose everything you have written. There are many […]
Journal Treasures / Sweet Fluid of Expression
Every so often, I share something I’ve written in one of my journals to let readers in on how the mind of at least one writer works. Here’s an entry from 2003, two years into the writing of my first novel , Between Will and Surrender, and when I was about to start my second, Between Darkness and Dawn. Journal Entry, June 19, 2003 […]
Write About Your Feelings / Bereavement
Guest blogger Dorothy Skarles is back to highlight a subject close to her heart.Bereavement. According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, bereavement is a noun; a state or fact of being. But in the post that follows, Dorothy turns it into a verb. By that I mean, Dorothy shares her emotional response to loss in a […]
Blogging, Love It, Hate It
Sometimes I love blogging. Sometimes I hate it. Today I hate it. I’d rather be pulling weeds. I’d rather be cleaning house. I need to get my rear off the chair and get some exercise. This once fine-tuned body is turning into jelly. How can I speed up this writing process so it won’t take […]
Copyright in the Work You Create
During a writers’ conference workshop sponsored by Friends of Elk Grove Library, Renee Morgan-Hampton, a litigation paralegal and author of Misrepresented, talked about getting a copyright in your work. Did you know that the moment you start writing your novel you have a copyright in the work you create? © All Rights Reserved. The Copyright […]
