My Blog

  • Where to find my more recent articles

    I have moved my writing over to Substack. Thank you for reading! I would be delighted to see you support my work by subscribing to my Substack blog, Another View. Read more

  • A look at blog titles and focus

    Michael Hyatt just drew my attention to a couple of important issues for bloggers in his articles, Why I Stopped Reading Your Blogs, and Do You Make These 10 Mistakes When You Blog? Two things that stood out for me relating to blogging were the importance of catchy headlines, and the need for focus. Hyatt Read more

  • My story is featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul

    My story, “The Perfect Coffee Table,” is featured in Chicken Soup for the Soul, Devotional Stories for Wives. Get your copy at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or Good Reads. Please share your thoughts when you read it. I’d love to hear from you. Read more

  • Will your voice sink or swim?

    OK, enough about me and my journey. Time to get back to what I love to write about. I love sharing my discoveries about writing with my readers. I am excited because I just read an article in the September 2013 issue of Writer’s Digest that has been particularly insightful for me on the subject Read more

  • Why I have not been writing as much

    From the perspective of the successful author, no reason is valid for not writing, short of being comatose or having both arms in a cast and my mouth wired shut. But for anyone who would like to hear about my process, here it is. For awhile I was writing five blog posts a week and Read more

  • OCW Conference

    I promised to report on my experience at the OCW Conference. Initially the goal was to find an editor who would want my novel. As the date approached I saw that I would not complete editing my novel in time. I did a lot of the hard work, as I had intended. But something was Read more

  • Writing Update

    I am two and a half weeks away from the Oregon Christian Writers’ Conference. Last year when I went to the conference for the first time–my first ever writers’ conference–I submitted my novel to an editor who said it was too “edgy” and “not suitable” for the publishing house she represented. I’ve since learned that Read more

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