Last Thursday, Tulsa Community College held a Human Trafficking Awareness presentation. I attended not only as part of my Intercultural Communications class but because of my interest in the topic through The Sad Girl. I was planning on taking a bunch of notes for this post, but it didn’t quite work out that way. As Read More
Writing
Checking My Reading and Writing Goals for January
How did I do with meeting my goals this month? It looked okay at first, but if I stay at this pace throughout the year, I’ll miss my intended target by almost 48,000 words. I definitely need to up my game.
From One Writer to Another: Getting Started
What’s something you wish you had known when you were getting started writing? I made a new friend the other day. I met a lady at a church event who asked me what I did for a living. When I replied that I was a writer, she mentioned that her daughter was working on a young Read More
How I Used Song Lyrics in The Sad Girl
When I wrote The Sad Girl, there were several lines from songs that I wanted to use in the book, because they really fit the scene, or because Danny was a fan of the artist. I had to do a lot of research into how to go about using song lyrics in a manuscript, and Read More
Check Out The New Digs!
How do you like the new site? I think it’s pretty awesome, myself. I’ve been working with Barb Drozdowich since late September on revising things. I talked a good bit about why in this post back in November.