Let’s pretend, for a moment, that this blog is called, “What I Learned While Training for a Half Marathon.”   Okay, go.   What I learned over the past twelve weeks, while I was, indeed, training for a half marathon, is that I need to do something consistently before I can do it well.   […]

For weeks I’ve been mentally drafting this post, putting it on to-do lists . . . and not following through. But today, all that changes!   My manuscript is revised, done, finished, ready to go out and see the world. The night I finished, as I formatted my synopsis to send to my agent, my […]

Two little kids. Two blogs. Two novels-in-progress. And a freelance editorial business.   I am in a very busy season of life, with to-do lists coming out of my to-do lists, and another dozen things that I only remember when I can’t reach one of my lists. My kids come first, but then, depending on […]