Balance
Flashback Friday: Author Lynette Sowell
Welcome to Flashback Fridays! For the summer and beyond, I’m going to run some nostalgic posts on parenting and writing from writing wannabes, newbies, and published authors. Many of these prepublished writing interviews are now published. So I encourage you to visit their sites and see what they’re up to today. 2006 Lynette Sowell is…
Writer…Interrupted By Summer
School has been out for a couple of weeks and I’m THRILLED that for a short season I’m free from all the trappings of the school year. For the next couple of months, I won’t have to: help with any Algebra homework drag any children out of bed scrounge through the kitchen to find something…
Interrupted by Vacation: Long Island, New York Edition
It’s been years since I’ve been to New York. Years since I walked the streets where I grew up, ate the BEST food in the world, and hung out with the craziest, funnest, and most loving people on earth! My family! No kids. No husband… And I’m having the time of my life! I thought…
How Do You Schedule the Unscheduled Days of Summer?
by Marji Laine End of school always labeled freedom. I can’t help but remember those elementary days and how we all dashed out of the school building on the last day. Some of the kids ripped their papers out of their notebooks, letting the wind carry the testimony of the hours of work away. I…
Reorganization: The Cost of Starting Over
Maybe it’s the writer in me. Or the perfectionist. Possibly the perfectionist writer. In any case, when it comes to organizational systems, I’m forever revising, producing new drafts of my methods, and occasionally scrapping what I’ve got and starting over. If necessity is the mother of invention, then annoyance is its kooky uncle. (TWEET THIS BY…
Do You Ever Want to Check Out from Your Online Responsibilities?
Please tell me I’m not the only one who gets overwhelmed with all the online responsibility stuff I need to maintain in my writing life just to keep an online my presence and platform. Stuff that writers need to do like blog, Tweet, comment, and write. Let’s not forget write! Please tell me I’m not…
When There’s No Time to Make Dinner Under a Writing Deadline
You’re pounding away at the keyboard in the middle of losing a feverish word war with time itself, and suddenly you hear a sound that you probably shouldn’t recognize, but you do. Someone has opened the very last sleeve of Ritz crackers in the house. “Excellent,” you think. “Now I don’t have to make dinner.” However, do…
What to Do When Our Families Think Our Writing is Just a Hobby
They say writing can be a lonely profession and nothing is more true when the people closest to you are unsupportive and think your writing is just a hobby. One thing I love about the writing community is that they “get” me. They understand that my writing is not a hobby, but a passion, a…
More Sleeper Posts You Might Have Missed
I have a lot of half finsihed content in my draft folder, but I really want to revisit some of these old posts that you might have missed. These posts are what I call sleepers. Not for the fact that they received unexpected recognition like the definition says, but rather they are posts I feel…
Balancing Fitness and Fiction
by Angela Ruth Strong I’m an author and an aerobics instructor. Two completely different worlds. One requires you to keep your butt in chair, the other requires you to move your butt. I’m still learning to balance the two, and I’d like to offer some New Year’s encouragement for you to do the same. First…